In Memoriam: Steve Highstead

We are deeply saddened that Steve, a brilliant Ph.D. student in our lab, unexpectedly passed away on March 10th.

Steve was not only a brilliant scholar — with deep interests in ethics, cognitive modeling, and philosophy — he was also a kind person who cared deeply about ideas. He was well liked by everyone in the lab, and his presence brought warmth, curiosity, and thoughtfulness to every conversation.

He will be deeply missed.

Our thoughts are with his family, friends, and all who had the privilege of knowing him.

AAAI 2023 publication

See our new publication at this years fall symposium of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial intelligence

West, R., Eckler, S., Conway-Smith, B., Turcas, N., Kelly, M. (2023). Bridging generative networks with the common model of cognition. In AAAI Fall Symposium. Link

Fascinating talk by John Laird at AAAI  – an honor to be cited in his presentation!

ICCM 2022

A fantastic ICCM conference this year in Toronto – great to meet up with colleagues including Dr. Lebiere who hosted the ACT-R workshop. Maria, Ren, and I presented our papers and Ren did a terrific job presenting ‘gactar’ at the ACT-R workshop. Well done all!

Brendan Conway-Smith gives a talk at ICCM 2022

Congratulations to lab members published at CogSci and ICCM 2022!
.          • Tristan Shaeen
.          • Ren Ozen
.          • Maria Vorobeva
.          • Brendan Conway-Smith