New: Workshop schedule detail posted (Adobe PDF format).
Download the 26th Soar Workshop flyer here (Adobe PDF format).
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The Center for Cognitive Architecture at the University of Michigan and Soar Technology, Inc. are pleased to announce the 26th Soar Workshop will be held Monday, May 22 through Friday, May 26, 2006, in Ann Arbor, MI. Soar Tutorials will be offered on May 22 and 23 in conjunction with the Workshop. The workshop will end on Friday May 26, 2006 at 3 p.m. 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 face-to-face conversations, hearing about the current status of other participants� research, and looking forward to what will happen in the future. We will try to give as many members of the community as possible the opportunity to describe their research or discuss the Soar issues that 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 entrenched in the Soar world, brief talks that concentrate on only the essentials work very well.
The Soar Workshop is announced on the soar-group mailing list, but we want to ensure that everyone actively working with Soar is invited. If you know of anyone who should have been invited but did not receive an announcement, please let us know. Proceedings from the previous Soar workshops are available online:
A registration fee of $100 (USD) per person is required. Please make checks payable to Soar Workshop 26. The registration fee includes lunches for the three workshop dates (May 24-26) and dinner on both Tuesday, May 23 and Thursday, May 25, along with a continential breakfast, lunch, and assorted snacks and drinks Wednesday to Friday.
Use the following form to register:
A tutorial session for beginners will be provided during the day on Monday and Tuesday, May 22 and 23, at no additional cost (tutorials are included in the 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 a copy of your presentation(s) via e-mail before the workshop as we will be generating and providing proceedings for all workshop attendees as well as archiving presentations 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 May 23 (Tuesday) printed single sided with multiple slides per page (2, 4 or 6 depending on readability) to conserve space in the proceedings.
Additional information is requested on the registration form. Please fill it out completely.
Workshop schedule (May 22-26, 2006):
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Monday (5/22) |
Tuesday (5/23) |
Wednesday (5/24) |
Thursday (5/25) |
Friday (5/26) |
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Beginner tutorial at CSE Building (9am - 5pm) |
Soar Workshop 26 at Soar Technology (9am - 5pm, 3pm on Fri) |
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Dinner at Pizza House (see below) (6:30 pm) |
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Dinner at 6:30 pm |
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The beginner tutorials will be held on Monday and Tuesday, May 22-23, during the day at the CSE Building on the North Campus of the University of Michigan. Maps are available below.
The workshop will begin on the evening of Tuesday, May 23, with a dinner gathering at Pizza House at 6:30 p.m., and will end Friday, May 26 at 3p.m. . 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 26
c/o John Laird
2260 Hayward
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2121
734-647-1761
Rooms can be reserved for attendees of the Soar Workshop at the following hotels, directly adjacent to the Workshop location, and a mile from the University of Michigan North Campus.
Two hotels very close but not adjacent: