Workshop Agenda

Tuesday June 29th
8:00-8:10	Chairs’ Opening Remarks Chris Forsythe & Michael Bernard, Sandia National Laboratories & Tim Goldsmith, University of New Mexico
8:10-8:30	Welcome Address Al Romig, Sandia National Laboratories
8:30-9:30	Keynote Address Memory Related EEG oscillations: The functional meaning of phase and amplitude. Wolfgang Klimesch, University of Salzburg
9:30-10:00	Breakout Session Introductions Michael Bernard, Sandia National Laboratories Topics to be announced.
10:00-10:15	Break
10:15-10:45	Neuro electronic human interfaces. [.PPT file] Chuck Jorgensen, NASA Ames Research Center
10:45-11:15	Trade-offs between automatic postural adjustments and orienting responses as indices of cognitive engagement. [.PPT file] Carey Balaban, University of Pittsburgh
11:15-11:45	Cognitive computing with a brain-like computer. [.PPT file] Jim Anderson, Brown University and Paul Allopenna, Aptima, Inc.
11:45-12:15	Using functional brain imaging to understand human cognition. Vince Clark, University of New Mexico
12:15-13:30	Lunch
13:30-14:00	Building a cognitive menu within a CGF. [.PPT file] Walter Warwick, Micro Analysis and Design
14:00-14:30	Category theory and cognitive neural systems: A mathematical semantic model. [.PPT file] Michael J. Healy, University of Washington and Thomas P. Caudell, University of New Mexico
14:30-15:00	Dynamic model of human context recognition and understanding. [.PPT file] Chris Forsythe, Patrick Xavier, and Ann Speed, Sandia National Laboratories
15:00-15:15	Break
15:15-15:45	User intent inferencing and information retrieval. [.PPT file] Eugene Santos, University of Connecticut
15:45-16:15	The man in the mirror: Human cognitive representations and the law. [.PPT file] Sonia Miller, S.E. Miller Law Firm
16:15-16:45	Towards augmented cognition workstations. *** This presentation was cancelled. *** Richard A. Barker & Richard E. Edwards, Boeing, and LCDR Dylan Schmorrow, DARPA
16:45-19:00	Breakout Dinner Session Participants should plan to have dinner together and participants in the demo session should allow time to set up their demonstrations.
19:00-21:00	Demonstration Session Titles of demonstrations to be announced

 

Wednesday June 30th
8:00-8:15	Chairs’ Opening Remarks Chris Forsythe & Michael Bernard, Sandia National Laboratories & Tim Goldsmith, University of New Mexico
8:15-9:15	Keynote Address Some conjectures stimulated by statistical models of human learning, language, and cognition. Thomas K. Landauer, University of Colorado and Knowledge Analysis Technologies
9:15-9:45	Episodic reminding: The effectiveness of augmenting memory by using reminders of previous events. [.PPT file] Gabriel Radvansky and David Copeland, University of Notre Dame
9:45-10:15	The cognitive structure of everyday events. [.PDF file] Jeffrey M. Zacks, Washington University
10:15-10:30	Break
10:30-11:00	Emerging cognitive capabilities on a 20 billion neuron simulation of the human cortex: CCortex preliminary results. Marcos Guillen, CCortex
11:00-11:30	Use of neural models for cognitive processing: An engineering perspective. [.PPT file] James C. Brakefield, Brakefield Research
11:30-13:30	Breakout Lunch Session Participants should plan to have lunch together.
13:30-14:00	Assessing driver’s cognitive state under real driving conditions: Toward the design of an integrated contextual cognitive state assessor. Wilhelm Kincses, DaimlerChrysler
14:00-14:30	Models of human expertise as engineering blueprints:  Application to landmine detection. [.PPT file] James J. Staszewski, Carnegie Mellon University
14:30-15:00	Collaborative knowledge-based virtual environments for the enhancement of learning. [.PPT file]  Thomas P. Caudell, Kenneth L. Summers & Dale Alverson, University of New Mexico, and Andrei Sherstyuk & Stanley Saiki, University of Hawaii
15:00-15:30	Psychologically plausible models that drive synthetic character behavior with applications for assessing interaction skills. [.PPT file] Rob Hubal, Paul Kizakevich, Geoff Frank, and Curry Guinn, RTI International
15:30-15:45	Break
15:45-16:15	Neuro emission controller for spark ignition engines.  [.PPT file] Sarangapani Jagannathan and Jim Drallmeier, University of Missouri
16:15-16:45	Methodology for mixed initiative human and autonomous agent system. [.PPT file] Martin Howard and Kevin Corker, San Jose State University
16:45-TBD	Breakout Dinner Session Participants should plan to have dinner together.
Thursday July 1st
8:00-8:15	Chairs’ Opening Remarks Chris Forsythe & Michael Bernard, Sandia National Laboratories & Tim Goldsmith, University of New Mexico
8:15-9:15	Keynote Address Implications of the Intelligent Distribution Agent (IDA) architecture for cognitive systems. [.PPT file] Stan Franklin, University of Memphis
9:15-9:45	Automated knowledge elicitation: Current technology and future research. [.PPT file] Travis Bauer and Robert Abbott, Sandia National Laboratories
9:45-10:15	Toward cinematic discourse generation: Using discourse planning techniques for automatic camera control in 3D environments. R. Michael Young, North Carolina State
10:15-10:30	Break
10:30-11:00	Aging a cognitive model: The application of model-independent parameters to existing models to predict age-related performance differences. [.PPT file] Brad Best, Christian Lebiere and Lila Laux, Micro Analysis and Design
11:00-11:30	Evidence sets: Using uncertainty as an engine for adaptive recommendation. [.PDF file] Luis Rocha, Los Alamos National Laboratories
11:30-12:00	The digital brain: The role of synchronization and plasticity in neural encoding. Alex Backer, California Institute of Technology
12:00-13:30	Report from Breakout Sessions Michael Bernard, Sandia National Laboratories

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