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The Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the University of Michigan and Soar Technology, Inc. are pleased to announce that the 24th Soar Workshop will be held Monday, June 7 through Friday, June 11, 2004, in Ann Arbor, MI. Soar Tutorials will be offered on June 7 and 8, in conjunction with the Workshop. All workshop, hotel, tutorial and additional information will be available on this web page. Periodic updates may be announced to soar-group, but please check this web page for the most up-to-date information. |
Each year members of the Soar community--faculty, scientists, graduate students, technical staff and developers--gather together for several days of intensive interaction and exchange on Soar. The Soar community is widely distributed geographically. These workshops provide the opportunity for having face-to-face conversations, for hearing about the current status of other participants’ research, and for looking forward to what will be happening in the future. We will try to give as many members of the community as possible the opportunity to describe their research or to discuss whatever Soar issues are of concern to them. This means the time available per talk is quite short (typically either 5 or 15 minutes). Since workshop attendees are already well-entrenched in the Soar world, however, brief talks that concentrate on only the essentials work very well.
The Soar Workshop is announced on the soar-group mailing list, but we do want to ensure that everyone actively working with Soar does get invited. If you know of anyone who really should have been invited, but did not receive an announcement, please let us know. Proceedings from the previous Soar workshops are available online:
To help defray the costs of the workshop, we require a registration fee of $75 (USD) per person. Please make checks payable to Soar Workshop 24. The registration fee includes lunches for the three workshop dates (June 9-11) and dinner on both Tuesday, June 8 and Thursday, June 10.
Use the following form to register:
A tutorial session for beginners will be provided during the day on Monday and Tuesday, June 7 and 8, at no additional cost (tutorials are included in registration fee). There will be no advanced tutorial this year; the advanced content will be blended into the workshop.
The workshop format is presentations only--no formal papers. Please send us a copy of your presentations via e-mail before the workshop as we will be generating and providing proceedings for all workshop attendees as well as archiving them on the web. Powerpoint (.ppt) and Adobe PDF (.pdf) formats are preferred.
If this is not possible, please bring a hardcopy of your slides to the dinner on the evening of the 8th (Tuesday) printed single sided with multiple slides per page (2, 4 or 6 depending on readability) to conserve space in the proceedings.
Additional information that we will need from you will be requested on the registration form (above). Please fill it out completely.
Workshop schedule (June 7-11, 2004):
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Beginner tutorial at ATL (9am - 5pm) |
Soar Workshop 24 at Soar Technology (9am - 5pm) |
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Dinner at Pizza House (see below) (6:30 pm) |
Dinner at Soar Technology (6pm) |
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The beginner tutorials will be held on Monday and Tuesday, June 7-8, during the day at the Advanced Technology Lab on the North Campus of the University of Michigan. Maps are available below.
The workshop will begin on the evening of Tuesday, June 8, with a dinner gathering at Pizza House at 6:30 PM , and will end Friday, June 11. The workshop will be held at the KIVA Conference Room, Soar Technology, Inc., 3600 Green Court, Ann Arbor, approximately 1 mile from the north campus of the University of Michigan. Detailed maps are available, showing the locations of the Workshop and Tutorials, hotels, campuses of the University of Michigan, and Ann Arbor relative to the airport:
Questions and information regarding the workshop should be directed via email to John Laird (laird@umich.edu) or:
Soar Workshop 24
c/o John Laird
1101 Beal Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2110
734-647-1761
Workshop attendees are encouraged to reserve accomodations as soon as possible. Rooms can be reserved for attendees of the Soar Workshop at the following hotels:
Two hotels nearby, but not adjacent:
Hawthorn and Microtel offer a complimentary breakfast, and are adjacent to the building where the Workshop will be held. It is up to attendees to book their own reservations. A map showing three of the hotels is on the first page of this document. For the Hawthorn and Holiday Inn make sure to specify the “Soar Rate” when making your reservation.
The hotels listed above are approximately 4 miles from the central campus, and 1-2 miles from the north campus, of the University of Michigan. There are many other hotels in the Ann Arbor area, but just a few are within walking distance of the main campus and none are nearer the north campus than the five listed above.
Last updated June 3, 2004 by voigtjr.