Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!princeton!phoenix.princeton.edu!bjr From: bjr@clarity.Princeton.EDU (Brian J. Reiser) Newsgroups: comp.ai.edu Subject: Re: AI&Ed status, conference,... Message-ID: Date: 5 Oct 90 04:25:56 GMT References: <3384@cui.unige.ch> Sender: news@idunno.Princeton.EDU Organization: Cognitive Science Lab. Princeton University. Lines: 51 In-reply-to: shneider@cui.unige.ch's message of 20 Sep 90 13:46:04 GMT In article <3384@cui.unige.ch> shneider@cui.unige.ch (Daniel Schneider) writes: Dear AI&ED-ist, [..some discussion deleted...] We also discussed the AI&ED - or whatever - society idea. Again we decided not to create it there (because we did not represent the whole AI&ED community) but to start enquiring about it, contacting many people around, contacting the organisers of AI&ED91. Sharon Derry, from Florida (temporarily at LRDC), said that an AI&ED group will be launched within AERA (I think) and that we would be better to join it instead of creating a new society because "big names" would join it and that our society would then be dead before being born. However, belonging to an educational group does not fit the needs AI groups and belonging to an American association does not accomodate European groups. An AI and Education Special Interest Group has *indeed* already been launched within AERA, the American Educational Research Association. Last year, our SIG sponsored some very well attended sessions at AERA 1990, and we will be sponsoring some very exciting sessions at next year's conference (April 3-7 in Chicago). The SIG publishes an occassional newsletter containing information about upcoming conferences, publications, and general news in the field, and most importantly sponsors symposia and paper sessions at the yearly AERA conference. For information about joining the SIG in AI and Education, please write or email to the Secretary of our SIG, Joe Psotka: Joseph Psotka, Ph.D. Chief, Smart Technology for Training U. S. Army Research Institute ATTN: PERI-IZ 5001 Eisenhower Avenue Alexandria, VA 22333-5600 Internet: Psotka@alexandria-emh2.army.mil The representation given to the area of AI and Education at the AERA conference is directly proportional to the size of our membership, so if you have an interest in this area and would like to see it represented at this conference, please consider joining the SIG. \end{plug} Brian J. Reiser President, SIG-AI and Education Cognitive Science Laboratory Princeton University Internet: reiser@princeton.edu