EPSYNET@UHUPVM1.BITNET (Psychnet Newsletter and Bulletin Board) (03/14/88)
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! Volume 3, Number 9, March 12, 1988 Circulation 817 !
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! From the Ed. Psych. Dept., University of Houston, Texas 77004 !
! Robert C. Morecock, Editor !
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Today's Topics:
1. Operationalization and Reseach Strategy Conference
-- Joop Hox
2. Call for Papers: IEEE Conference on Neural Information
Processing Systems -- Natural and Synthetic
-- Jawad Salehi
3. Request to Readers:
-- Play and Computers -- Bill Hunter
4. Psychnet Feature: Another Mailing List of Interest to Readers
-- Artificial Intelligence List
5. Files Arriving at Psychnet Since the Last Issue
6. How to Retrieve Psychnet Files
(For discussion of above or other topics on Psychnet, send your
comments to userid Epsynet at node Uhupvm1 on Bitnet.)
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Following is the announcement of a symposium on
"Operationalization & Research Strategy", to be held in
Amsterdam, september 8-9, 1988, and a registration form. Requests
for information can also be send to me directed to U00005 at
HASARA5 (EARN/BITNET). Joop Hox, Faculty of Educational Sciences,
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
International symposium on
OPERATIONALIZATION
AND
RESEARCH STRATEGY
Amsterdam, september 8-9, 1988
Organizing Committee
Prof. dr. J. de Jong-
Gierveld (chairperson)
Dr. J.J. Hox (secretary)
Prof. dr. R. Pawson (RC33)
Prof. dr. P.G. Swanborn
Dr. W. Jansen
On Thursday 8th and Friday 9th September 1988,
the Research Committee on "Conceptualization and
Research Design", institutional member of the Social & Cultural
Sciences Section of the Netherlands Organization for the
Advancement of Pure Research (ZWO), is organizing an Inter
national Symposium on "Operationalization and Research strategy".
The symposium is co-sponsored by the Research Committee on
"Logic and Methodology" (RC33) of the International Sociological
Association.
The Symposium
Subject of the Symposium is the interrelationship between the
operationalization of central research concepts and general
research strategy, incorporating c.q. including the changing
function of theories and of mathematical modeling.
In recent years ideas about the functioning of theories in
empirical research have spread into at least two directions: some
scientists firmly support verbal theory as a heuristic instrument
for analyzing networks of central theoretical concepts, others
adhere to formalized theory, and strongly data oriented
approaches for developing measurement instruments.
The primary goal of the symposium is to bring together experts
from both fields to discuss the state of the art and further
developments. Secondly, the symposium aims at bringing together
researchers from the Netherlands and from outside to exchange
ideas.
(The balance of the announcement is contained in the
file OPERATIO NALIZE which is available from Psychnet -- Ed.)
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From: 21423js@faline.bellcore.com (Jawad Salehi)
I E E E Conference on
Neural Information Processing Systems
-- Natural and Synthetic --
Monday, November 28 -- Thursday, December 1, 1988
Denver, Colorado
This will be the second meeting in a series. The November
1987 meeting, at the same location, brought together neurobiologists,
cognitive psychologists, computer scientists, engineers and physicists.
Several days of focussed workshops at a nearby ski resort followed.
A similar mountain retreat is planned for this year. At the NIPS
meeting, the topics we expect to cover include the following:
Neurobiological models of development, cellular information processing,
synaptic function, learning and memory.
Connectionist models of learning and cognitive processing; training
paradigms; analysis of applicability, generalization, and complexity.
Applications to signal processing, vision, speech, motor control,
knowledge engineering and adaptive systems.
Practical issues in the simulation of neural networks.
Advances in hardware technologies -- neurophysiological recording tools,
VLSI or optical implementations of neural networks.
Technical program: Plenary, contributed, and poster sessions will be
held. There will be no parallel sessions. The full text of presented
papers will be published.
(The balance of the call for papers is contained in the
Psychnet file NEURAL CONFEREN -- Ed.)
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From: Bill Hunter <HUNTER@UNCAEDU>
A colleague and I will be teaching a spring term (May and June) graduate
seminar on "Computers as Playthings." Students in the course will be
practicing teachers with various degrees of experience and interest
in the roles that computers may play in teaching. My colleague is a
phenomenologist whose analysis of play tends to preclude the possibility
of computers functioning as devices that may aid and abet in play. I,
on the other hand, am predisposed to viewing computers primarily as
playthings; playthings that have the capacity to foster exploration
and discovery. Both of us (and the students) will be actively engaged
in formulating and reformulating written expressions on questions generated
by our readings and discussions.
Of late, I have found that there are a lot of folks who share an interest
in play and computers. If this is a topic of interest to you, we would
welcome your comments as part of our discussion. Full-blown papers and/or
proposals are certainly welcome, but we would be particularly interested
in ideas from people who are also in the process of formulating their
own thinking on this topic. E-mail or surface mail of hard copy are equally
welcome and inclusion in the seminar's deliberations is possible for any
who express an interest. As you can see, I am also intent on playing as
a part of the instructional design of the course: so what I am really
getting at here is --"wanna play?"
Bill Hunter
HUNTER@UNCAEDU
The University of Calgary
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PSYCHNET FEATURE: ANOTHER MAILING LIST OF POSSIBLE INTEREST TO READERS
(A Selected Item from the Arpanet Siglists)
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AILIST@SRI.COM
AIList is a major list for discussion of artificial intelligence and
related topics:
Expert Systems AI Techniques
Knowledge Representation Knowledge Acquisition
Problem Solving Hierarchical Inference
Machine Learning Pattern Recognition
Analogical Reasoning Data Analysis
Cognitive Psychology Human Perception
AI Languages and Systems Machine Translation
Theorem Proving Decision Theory
Logic Programming Computer Science
Automatic Programming Information Science
Contributions may be anything from tutorials to rampant speculation. In
particular, the following are sought:
Abstracts Reviews
Lab Descriptions Research Overviews
Work Planned or in Progress Half-Baked Ideas
Conference Announcements Conference Reports
Bibliographies History of AI
Puzzles and Unsolved Problems Anecdotes, Jokes, and Poems
Queries and Requests Address Changes (Bindings)
All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems, questions,
etc., should be sent to AIList-Request@SRI.COM.
BITNET or NetNorth subscribers can join by sending the SUB command with
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to LISTSERV AT FINHUTC:
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or TELL LISTSERV AT NDSUVM1 SUB AILIST Jon Doe
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To MAKE CONTRIBUTIONS to the list, BitNet subscribers should send mail to
the ARPANET list name: AILIST@STRIPE.SRI.COM.
Coordinator: Dr. Kenneth I. Laws <Laws@SRI.COM>
SRI International
333 Ravenswood Ave.
Menlo Park, CA 94025
(415) 859-6467
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FILES ARRIVING AT PSYCHNET SINCE THE LAST ISSUE
________________________________________________________________________
COMPUTER SOCV3N09 (03.07.88) Computer and Society Digest
CRTNET 125 (03.08.88) Communications Research and Theory Newsletter
CRTNET 126 (03.08.88) Communications Research and Theory Newsletter
CRTNET 127 (03.09.88) Communications Research and Theory Newsletter
NETWEEK 5 (03.01.88) Bitnet WEEKLY newsletter
NETWEEK 6 (03.09.88) Bitnet WEEKLY newsletter
NETWEEK 7 (03.13.88) Bitnet WEEKLY newsletter
NETWORK INTRO (03.09.88) Description of Networking for Beginners
NEURAL CONFEREN (03.12.88) Neural Info Processing Systems Conference
OPERATIO NALIZE (03.12.88) Operationalization and Research Strategy Conf.
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