Soar Homepage¶
Soar is a general cognitive architecture for developing systems that exhibit intelligent behavior. For more in-depth information, see our about page, or J.E. Laird's 2012 book, The Soar Cognitive Architecture, available from Amazon and MIT Press.
To get started, download Soar and follow the quick start guide.
News and Announcements¶
- Engineer's Guide to Soar: A 14-part course on programming Soar for engineers, by Bryan Stearns is now available on GitHub.
- Soar 9.6.3 available for download: This release of Soar contains ergonomic improvements to the debugger and Soar CLI, lots of new VisualSoar features, and plenty of bug fixes and stability improvements. Note: if you are a Mac user with an Intel processor and you downloaded the release prior to August 19, 2024, then you will need to re-download. There was an issue with the setup script for Mac/Intel users which would prevent running Soar.
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44th Soar Workshop 2024 This year’s Soar workshop will be held on May 29, 2024, at the University of Michigan’s Beyster Building on North Campus in Ann Arbor, MI. It will be a hybrid workshop, and remote presentations will be possible. As in the past, it will be free.
Please consider participating! If you are interested in the workshop, please complete the registration form.
Registration closes on 10 May. We look forward to seeing you at the 2024 Soar Workshop!