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 you would like to attend the workshop and have not registered, you may still register here (although it is too late to add talks to the schedule): Register for workshop
| Final Schedule | 46th Soar Workshop | 1690 Beyster Building, 2260 Hayward St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 | |
| May 6, 2026 | Public Paid Parking Lots NC48 and NC27 | ||
| Zoom Meeting ID: See email for details | |||
| Time (US EDT) | Presenter | Topic | |
| 9:00am-10:15pm | 75 | ||
| 15 | John Laird | Introductions | |
| 15 | Steven Jones | Soar 9.6.5 Release Announcement | |
| 15 | Moritz Schmidt | AI & MCP for Soar: Agentic Software Engineering Cycle for Soar | |
| 15 | Moritz Schmidt | Performance Evaluation of soar_ros | |
| 15 | Bob Wray | Explorations of Coding Agents Coding Soar | |
| 10:15am-10:30am | 15 | Break | |
| 10:30am-12:00pm | 90 | ||
| 20 | Steven Jones | Requirements for Aligned, Dynamic Resolution of Conflicts in Operational Constraints | |
| 20 | John Laird | Update on the Thor-Soar agent | |
| 15 | Jim Boggs | Visusal Perception in Thor-Soar | |
| 15 | Aaron Mininger | Correctable ITL in Thor-Soar | |
| 20 | Yongjia Wang | A Dataflow Program Framework for Structured Memory and Learning in Soar | |
| 12:00pm-1:00pm | 60 | Lunch | |
| 1:00pm-2:45pm | 105 | ||
| 10 | Nate Derbinsky | PolyCog | |
| 10 | June Kim | Why Starcraft 2 is the Ideal Benchmark Platform | |
| 15 | Himanshu Joshi | Soar for ARC: Cognitive Architectures Tackling Abstraction and Reasoning Challenges | |
| 15 | Griffith Mehaffey | The MemCora Framework | |
| 45 | Andrea Stocco & Christian Lebiere | ACT-R community lessons | |
| 10 | Cognitive Architecture Communities Discussion | ||
| 2:45pm-3:00pm | 15 | Break | |
| 3:00pm-5:00pm | 120 | ||
| 15 | Stewart Ziff | Associate Instructional Professor; Associate Graduate Director, Visualization | |
| 15 | James Kirk | Hierarchical Logic Graphs | |
| 15 | Peter Lindes | Explaining Answers to Complex Questions | |
| 15 | James Kirk | LLM usage with Soar (past & future) | |
| 15 | Peter Lindes | Translating Robot Instructions with a LLM | |
| 15 | James Kirk | MetaCALM: Comprehensive Troubleshooting via Integration of LLMs and Soar | |
| 15 | Siyu Wu | Teaming Symbolic Cognitive Architectures (Soar) and Foundation Models Toward General-Purpose Robotics | |
| 15 | John Laird | LLM Discussion | |
| 6:00pm | Dinner | Bigalora: 3050 Washtenaw, Ste. 112 Ann Arbor, MI 48104 |