[ACT-R-users] Fwd: Herbert A. Simon Prize for Advances in Cognitive Systems

[Frank Ritter]

There is a lot of good and interesting work at this meeting. There are 
talks, posters, invited talks, and mentoring sessions. Note that the 
times are Pacific (California) times on the schedule.

I should have sent this out earlier. It is free, and you should 
seriously consider using this resource.

cheers,

Frank Ritter



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Subject: 	Herbert A. Simon Prize for Advances in Cognitive Systems
Resent-Date: 	Fri, 7 Aug 2020 17:32:08 -0400
Resent-From: 	fer2 at psu.edu
Date: 	Fri, 7 Aug 2020 14:31:25 -0700
From: 	Pat Langley <patrick.w.langley at gmail.com>
To: 	Advances in Cognitive Systems <acs at cogsys.org>



Dear Colleagues,

The Herbert A. Simon Prize recognizes scientists who have made
important and sustained contributions to understanding human and
machine intelligence through the design, creation, and study of
computational artifacts that exhibit high-level cognition.

The Cognitive Systems Foundation and the Herbert Simon Society
co-sponsor the Prize, which comes with a cash award of $10,000.
Last year, after considering some excellent candidates, the selection
committee decided that:

The recipient of the 2019 Herbert A. Simon Prize for Advances
in Cognitive Systems is Patrick Henry Winston, for his seminal
research on concept learning, analogy, common-sense reasoning,
and story processing, which he saw as key to understanding
intelligence, and for his textbooks, courses, and videos, which
educated generations of students in artificial intelligence.

Because Patrick Winston cannot present his prize address, we have
organized a symposium in his honor, with four talks by researchers
he mentored during his career, at the Eighth Annual Conference on
Advances in Cognitive Systems (http://www.cogsys.org/conference/2020/),
where we will also announce the winner of the 2020 Simon Prize.

The virtual three-day conference, hosted by PARC, will take place next
week from Monday, August 10, to Wednesday, August 12. Registration
is free at https://advancesincognitivesystems.github.io/acs/, which also
links to the meeting schedule. The Winston symposium will be on Tuesday
from 12:45 pm to 2:30 pm Pacific time. I hope many of you can attend.

Sincerely,

Pat Langley, Director
Cognitive Systems Foundation