by CICWebsiteAdmin | Oct 2, 2026 | News
Staff from CIC are headed to Edinburgh for Advances in Cognitive Systems. Our team has two oral presentations and a poster at the conference! Bob Wray will present a John-Laird-authored paper on the cognitive capabilities agents need to earn individual users’...
by CICWebsiteAdmin | Sep 18, 2026 | News
The CIC is thrilled to announce that Dr. James Kirk has been promoted to Lead Scientist at the CIC. Lead Scientists lead individual projects and develop their own research portfolios. James has played a key role in defining technical opportunities for CIC and leading...
by CICWebmaster | Aug 4, 2026 | News
CIC’s work on STARS, a neurosymbolic approach that mines world knowledge from an LLM when a Soar agent is learning new tasks, has been published in Frontiers in Computer Science. The paper describes STARS, the system we introduced in a AAAI24 paper, and our...
by CICWebmaster | Jul 31, 2026 | News
John Laird presented a new paper at AGI 2026. “Unified, Comprehensive Metacognition within the Common Model of Cognition” proposes the addition of metacognition, or “reasoning about any and all aspects of an agent’s cognition,” to the Common...
by CICWebmaster | Jul 25, 2026 | News
Bob Wray presented an invited talk at a workshop at Cognitive Science 2026. The workshop, Laying the foundations for foundation models of cognition, focused on how foundation models could inform and advance cognitive modeling, and what might be required to build...
by CICWebmaster | Apr 2, 2026 | News
This year’s Soar Workshop will be on 6 May. The schedule for the workshop is below. The workshop will be hybrid, with on-site participation in Ann Arbor, MI (1690 Beyster Building on University of Michigan’s North Campus) and remote via Zoom. The workshop is...
