CogSci conference tutorials

[Gary Jones]

This may be of interest to the people on this mailing list. I have taken
tutorials in three out of the four and found them to be very useful.

The Twenty First Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society will take
place on August 19-21, 1999 at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, B.C.
The day before the conference, there will be an open workshop on teaching
cognitive science and a tutorial programme.  This year there are four
tutorials on cognitive architectures, including Soar, ACT-R, Cogent, and
PDP++.  These tutorials are generally designed to introduce architectures
to potential users.  These tutorials do not teach the architectures
completely, but provide enough background to understand models written in
them and usually provide enough information for modellers to judge if the
architecture is right for their problem.  More information on the
conference is available at <http://www.sfu.ca/cogsci99/main.htm>.



Gary Jones
Psychology Department
University of Nottingham
Nottingham NG7 2RD
England
E-mail: gaj at Psychology.Nottingham.AC.UK
Web: http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/Gary.Jones/