32nd Soar Workshop

June 18th-22nd, 2012

3270 Beyster Building, North Campus, University of Michigan

Room 1670

Participant group photo in front of Beyster building with arms raised (making waves), 2012

Schedule

Wednesday, June 20th

Time	Duration	Presenter	Title	Links
8:30-9:00	30		Registration, Bagels, Juice, and Coffee
9:00-10:15	75
	15		Introductions
	20	John Laird	Selection Space	pdf, ppt
	20	John Laird	Using Background Knowledge in RL	pdf, ppt
	20	Mitchell Bloch	Tie Impasses for Numeric Preferences	pdf
10:15-10:45	30		Break
10:45-12:00	75
	20	Nate Derbinsky	Competence-Preserving Retention of Learned Knowledge in Soar Memories	pdf, ppt
	20	Nate Derbinsky	Multi-Domain Evaluation of Scaling in Soar's Episodic Memory	pdf, ppt
	20	Justin Li	Functional Interactions between Memory and Recognition Judgments	pdf
	15	Nate Derbinsky	Next Steps in Memory Research	pdf, ppt
12:00-1:30	90		Lunch
1:30-3:05	95
	15	Joseph Xu	Soar 9.3.2 and Changes to the Soar Compilation Process	pdf, ppt
	15	Johnicholas Hines	Delimited Continuations in Soar	pdf, ppt
	15	Joseph Xu	How to use the new Soar Visual System (SVS)	pdf, ppt
	20	Keegan Kinkade	Soar Robot Unleashed	pdf
	30	Joseph Xu	Learning Relational and Continuous Action Models	pdf, ppt
3:05-3:35	30		Break
3:35-4:30	55
	15	Mike van Lent	SoarTech Overview	slides missing
	10	Mike van Lent	Soar in DARPA's SSIM program	slides missing
	10	Mike van Lent	Would you trust a Soar agent with your life?	slides missing
	30		Discussion
6:30-8:30	120		Pizza House, 618 Church Street

Thursday, June 21st

Time	Duration	Presenter	Title	Links
8:30-9:00	30		Bagels, Juice, and Coffee
9:00-10:20	80
	15	John Laird	Overview of BOLT (Grounded Language Acquisition)	pdf
	15	Robert Goeddel	"Kinecting" the Dots: How Bolt Sees the World	pdf
	20	Sam Wintermute	Leveraging Cognitive Context for Language Processing in Soar	pdf, ppt
	15	Shiwali Mohan	Mixed Initiative Interaction for Learning	pdf
	15	Aaron Mininger	Learning Nouns and Adjectives in Bolt	pdf
10:20-10:50	30		Break
10:50-12:00	70
	15	James Kirk	Learning Prepositions for Spatial Relations in BOLT	pdf, ppt
	15	Shiwali Mohan	Situated Comprehension of Verb Commands	pdf
	15	Shiwali Mohan	Learning new Actions with Retrospective Projection	pdf
	25		Discussion
12:00-1:30	90		Lunch
1:30-3:00	90
	15	Deryle Lonsdale	XNL-Soar: Where we are and where we're headed	pdf, ppt
	5	Nathan Glenn	Japanese and Optimality Theory	pdf, ppt
	15	John Hale	Rational Parsing	pdf
	20	Rick Lewis	Language Processing as Bounded Optimal Control of Memory, Perception	pdf
	15	Glenn Taylor	Natural Human-Robot Interaction	slides missing
	20		Discussion
3:00-3:30	30		Break
3:30-4:30	60
	15	Randy Jones	Interpreted Declarative Representations of Task Knowledge	pdf, ppt
	15	Randy Jones	Achieving parsimony between NGS and the Michigan approach	pdf, ppt
	30		Discussion
7:30-9:00	150		Demos	Soar Technology, Green Road