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socrates.Berkeley.EDU>BLS 28 CALL FOR PAPERS The Berkeley Linguistics Society is pleased to announce its Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting, to be held February 15-18, 2002. The conference will consist of a General Session, a Parasession, and a Special Session on Southeast Asian linguistics to be dedicated to Jim Matisoff, who is retiring at the end of the academic year. General Session The General Session will cover all areas of linguistic interest. We encourage proposals from diverse theoretical frameworks and also welcome papers on language-related topics from disciplines such as Anthropology, Cognitive Science, Literature, Neuroscience, and Psychology. Invited Speakers: JOHN KINGSTON, University of Massachusetts LESLEY MILROY, University of Michigan DOUGLAS PULLEYBLANK, University of British Columbia Parasession: Field Linguistics The Parasession invites papers on linguistics in the field, including (but not limited to) methodology, the use of technology in the field, and results of recent fieldwork in any area of linguistics. Invited Speakers: IAN MADDIESON, University of California, Berkeley PAMELA MUNRO, University of California, Los Angeles JORGEN RISCHEL, University of Copenhagen Special Session: Tibeto-Burman/Southeast Asian Linguistics The Special Session invites papers on Southeast Asian languages (especially Tibeto-Burman, Tai-Kadai, Mon-Khmer, Hmong-Mien) in any area of linguistics. Invited Speakers: JEROLD EDMONDSON, University of Texas, Arlington GRAHAM THURGOOD, California State University, Chico SCOTT DELANCEY, University of Oregon Abstract Submission Guidelines Papers presented at the conference will be published in the Society's Proceedings, and authors who present papers agree to provide camera-ready copy (not to exceed 12 pages) by May 15, 2002. Presentations will be allotted 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions. An author may submit at most one single and one joint abstract. In case of joint authorship, one address should be designated for communication with BLS. Your abstract should be as specific as possible, including a statement of your topic or problem, your approach, and your conclusions. Please send ten (10) copies of an anonymous one-page (8.5" x 11") abstract. Abstracts may be at most four hundred (400) words. The reverse side of the single page may be used for data and references only. Along with the abstracts send a 3" x 5" card listing: (1) Paper title (2) Session (General Session/Parasession/Special Session) (3) Name(s) of author(s) (4) Affiliation(s) of author(s) (5) Address to which notification of acceptance or rejection should be mailed (November-December) (6) Contact phone number for each author (7) E-mail address for each author (8) **For General Session submissions only: subfield (phonology, syntax, etc.) (9) **For Para- and Special Session submissions only: indication of whether you wish to have your abstract considered for the General Session if the organizers determine that your paper will not fit into either of the other sessions Send abstracts: Via post BLS 28 Abstracts Committee University of California Department of Linguistics 1203 Dwinelle Hall Berkeley, CA 94720-2650 Via e-mail blsMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
psy.utexas.edu>ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: THE THIRD ANNUAL DAVID E. RUMELHART PRIZE FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FORMAL ANALYSIS OF HUMAN COGNITION The recipient of the Third Annual David E. Rumelhart Prize will be chosen during the first part of 2002. The winner will be announced at the 2002 Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, and will receive the prize and give the Prize Lecture at the 2003 Meeting. The prize is awarded annually to an individual or collaborative team making a significant contemporary contribution to the formal analysis of human cognition. Mathematical modeling of human cognitive processes, formal analysis of language and other products of human cognitive activity, and computational analyses of human cognition using symbolic or non-symbolic frameworks all fall within the scope of the award. The Prize itself will consist of a certificate, a citation of the awardee's contribution, and a monetary award of $100,000. Nomination, Selection and Award Presentation For the Third Annual Prize, the selection committee will continue to consider nominations previously submitted. The committee invites updates to existing nominations as well as new nominations. Materials should be sent to the Prize Administration address at the end of this announcement. To be considered in the committee's deliberations for the Third David E. Rumelhart Prize, materials must be received by Friday, January 11, 2002. Nominations should include six sets of the following materials: (1) A three-page statement of nomination, (2) a complete curriculum vitae and (3) copies of up to five of the nominee's relevant publications. Note that the nominee may be an individual or a team, and in the case of a team, vitae for all members should be provided. The prize selection committee considers both the scientific contributions and the scientific leadership and collegiality of the nominees, so these issues should be addressed in the statement of nomination. Previous Recipients and Prize-Related Activities Previous winners of the David E. Rumelhart Prize are Geoffrey E. Hinton and Richard M. Shiffrin. Hinton received the First David E. Rumelhart Prize and delivered the Prize Lecture at the 2001 Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Shiffrin, the winner of the Second David E. Rumelhart Prize, was announced at the 2001 Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. He will recieve the prize and deliver the Prize Lecture at the 2002 meeting. Funding of the Prize The David E, Rumelhart Prize is funded by the Robert J. Glushko and Pamela Samuelson Foundation, based in San Francisco. Robert J. Glushko is an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley who received a Ph. D. in Cognitive Psychology in 1979 under Rumelhart's supervision. Prize Administration The Rumelhart Prize is administered by the Chair of the Prize Selection Committee in consultation with the Glushko-Samuelson Foundation and the Distinguished Advisory Board. Screening of nominees and selection of the prize winner will be performed by the Prize Selection Committee. Scientific members (including the Chair) of the Prize Selection Committee will serve for up to two four-year terms, and members of this committee will be selected by the Glushko-Samuelson Foundation in consultation with the Distinguished Advisory Board. A representative of the Foundation will also serve on the Prize Selection Committee. Members of the Prize Selection Committee are listed at the end of this announcement. David E. Rumelhart: A Scientific Biography David E. Rumelhart has made many contributions to the formal analysis of human cognition, working primarily within the frameworks of mathematical psychology, symbolic artificial intelligence, and parallel distributed processing. He also admired formal linguistic approaches to cognition and explored the possibility of formulating a formal grammar to capture the structure of stories. Rumelhart obtained his undergraduate education at the University of South Dakota, receiving a B.A. in psychology and mathematics in 1963. He studied mathematical psychology at Stanford University, receiving his Ph. D. in 1967. From 1967 to 1987 he served on the faculty of the Department of Psychology at the University of California, San Diego. In 1987 he moved to Stanford University, serving as Professor there until 1998. He has become disabled by Pick's disease, a progressive neurodegenerative illness, and now lives with his brother in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Rumelhart developed models of a wide range of aspects of human cognition, ranging from motor control to story understanding to visual letter recognition to metaphor and analogy. He collaborated with Don Norman and the LNR Research Group to produce "Explorations in Cognition" in 1975 and with Jay McClelland and the PDP Research Group to produce "Parallel Distributed Processing: Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition" in 1986. He mastered many formal approaches to human cognition, developing his own list processing language and formulating the powerful back-propagation learning algorithm for training networks of neuron-like processing units. Rumelhart was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1991 and received many prizes, including a MacArthur Fellowship, the Warren Medal of the Society of Experimental Psychologists, and the APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award. Rumelhart articulated a clear view of what cognitive science, the discipline, is or ought to be. He felt that for cognitive science to be a science, it would have to have formal theories, and he often pointed to linguistic theories, as well as to mathematical and computational models, as examples of what he had in mind. Prize Selection Committee Alan Collins Department of Learning Sciences School of Education and Social Policy Northwestern University Mark Liberman Departments of Computer and Information Sciences and Linguistics University of Pennsylvania Anthony J. Marley Department of Psychology McGill University James L. McClelland (Chair) Carnegie Mellon University and Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Inquiries and Nominations should be sent to David E. Rumelhart Prize Administration Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition 115 Mellon Institute 4400 Fifth Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-4000 derprizeMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue