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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 latest...

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 Model of Cognition.

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...

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 free. If...

Steven Jones presented the CIC's paper on Requirements for Aligned, Dynamic Conflict Resolution at AAAI-26, the annual conference of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.  AAAI was an energizing opportunity to share CIC's latest research with...

The CIC is excited to share that a CIC paper, "Requirements for Aligned, Dynamic Resolution of Conflicts in Operational Constraints," has been accepted for oral presentation at AAAI26 (Alignment track). The authors are Steven Jones, Bob Wray, and John Laird (full...

The 45th Soar Workshop will be on 5 May. The meeting will be hybrid with on-site at the University of Michigan Beyster Building, North Campus, in Ann Arbor, MI, and remote on Zoom. The workshop will run from 9am to 5pm Eastern Time. See the full agenda below (sorry,...