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PSYCOLOQUY   ISSN 1055-0143     Sat, 12 Sep 92       Newsletter Section
      (1) Employment: Update on the lectureship at Cardiff
      (2) Employment: Tenure-Track Position, Memphis State University
      (3) Employment: 3 positions, Duke University, North Carolina
      (4) Employment: Lectureship In Psychology, University of Waikato, NZ
      (5) Petition: A Broader Agenda for Computer Science and Engineering
      (6) Employment: 2 psychol. positions, Macquarie U. Sydney, Austral
      (7) Conference: Computers in Psychology, U of York, UK
      (8) Meetings: Society for Cross-Cultural Research (SCCR)
      (9) Workshop: NIPS Symbol Grounding Workshop
     (10) Conference: Electronic Publishing

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From: BELLIN@TAFF.CARDIFF.AC.UK
Subject: (1) Employment: Update on the lectureship at Cardiff

                        LECTURESHIP AT CARDIFF
                         SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

For this position you should be an active researcher in the field of

developmental, social, cognitive or educational psychology

                        QUERIES SO FAR

>What about the salary?
Salary:  12860-23739 p.a. (award pending) - it goes all up the
scale according to age and experience.
>Is it a permanent job?
     Yes it is a proper lectureship alongside other chartered
     psychologists in the department.
>Closing date?
     September 14th, 1992 - the original adverts were mistaken.
>Further details?
    Write to Personnel Division, 50 Park Place,
    Cardiff CF1 3AT quoting ref. no. 92/49
    Tel 0222 874452 or fax 0222 874788
>More about the department?
    email bellin@uk.ac.cardiff

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From: WARDJP@MEMSTVX1.BitNet
Subject: (2) Employment: Tenure-Track Position, Memphis State University

FACULTY POSITION IN BIOPSYCHOLOGY:  The Department of Psychology at Memphis
State University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position
at the assistant professor level.  We are seeking an active scholar who shows
promise of developing a nationally recognized program of research.  Specific
research specialization within biopsychology is open.  Salary for the position
is highly competitive and research support is readily available through a
Center of Excellence grant awarded to the department by the State of Tennessee.
The department currently includes 31 full-time faculty.  Evaluation of
candidates will begin on December 4, 1992, but applications will be considered
until the position is filled.  Send curriculum vitae, three letters of
recommendation, and reprints/preprints to:  Sam B. Morgan, Chair, Faculty
Search Committee, Department of Psychology, Memphis State University, Memphis,
TN 38152.  Memphis State University is an Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action
Employer and encourages applications from women and minorities.

Thanks so much.  Jeannette P. Ward, Professor of Psychology, MSU

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From: DGREG@DUKEMVS.BitNet
Subject: (3) Employment: 3 positions, Duke University, North Carolina

The Department of Experimental Psychology at DUKE UNIVERSITY has a
tenure-track assistant professor position beginning in the Fall, 1993 in the
general area of Behavioral Neuroscience with theoretical interests in
neural plasticity, learning, motivation, or sensory perception development.
Candidates with strong research and teaching interests should send a vitae,
representative reprints, and three or more letters of recommendation to:
Faculty Search Committee, Department of Experimental Psychology, Duke
University, Durham, NC, 27706.  Duke is an equal opportunity/affirmative
action employer.

The Department of Experimental Psychology at DUKE UNIVERSITY has
non-tenure-track Research Assistant Professor position beginning in the
Fall, 1993 in the area of experimental and theoretical analysis of animal
learning.  This three year appointment is renewable for an additional two
years. Duties include a regular teaching schedule and collaboration with
Professor John E. R. Staddon's research group. Applicants should send a
vita, four or fewer publications, and names of three referees to: Dr. J.E.R.
Staddon, Department of Experimental Psychology, Duke University,
Durham, NC 27706.  Duke is an equal opportunity/affirmative action
employer.

The Department of Experimental Psychology at DUKE UNIVERSITY has
non-tenure-track Research Assistant Professor position beginning in the
Fall, 1993 in the area of the developmental psychobiology of ingestive
behavior. This three year appointment is renewable for an additional two
years. Duties include a regular teaching schedule and collaboration with
Professor W. G. Hall's research group. Applicants should send a vita, four or
fewer publications, and names of three referees to: Dr. W. G. Hall,
Department of Experimental Psychology, Duke University, Durham, NC
27706.  Duke is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

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From: PSYC0023@waikato.ac.nz
Subject: (4) Employment: Lectureship In Psychology, University of Waikato, NZ

                         THE UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO
                           HAMILTON NEW ZEALAND

                  LECTURER/SENIOR LECTURER IN PSYCHOLOGY

Applications are invited for a Lectureship or Senior Lectureship in
Experimental Psychology.  We are particularly seeking a person who will
teach in undergraduate and graduate courses in Physiological Psychology and
Perception.  The successful applicant will be expected to have a
demonstrated research ability and to supervise thesis students in these
areas.  A sound knowledge of methodology would be an advantage.  The
appointee will be expected to commence duties by 1 February 1993.

Research interests in the Department, which has an establishment of 26
staff include perception, experimental and applied behaviour analysis,
learning, social, clinical, community, industrial and organizational and
cross-cultural.  Programmes for Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral degrees, as
well as Post Graduate diplomas in clinical and community psychology are
offered.  Micro-computers and VAX network are available to staff.

The current salary range for Lecturers is $NZ37,440 - $NZ49,088 per annum.
and for Senior Lecturers is $NZ52,000 - $NZ67,080 per annum.

Enquiries of an academic nature may be made to Dr Michael D Hills,
Chairperson of Psychology, telephone (64) 7 8562889 (office hours) or (064)
7 8563548 (after hours), Fax (064 7 8562158.  Information on the method of
application and conditions of appointment can be obtained from Personnel
(Academic Staffing), University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton, New
Zealand, telephone (64) 7 8562889, Fax (64) 7 8560135.  Applications
quoting reference number A92/41 should reach Academic Staffing by 14th Sept
1992.  Please get in touch as soon as
possible if interested (contact T.M.Foster E-mail: PSYC0182@WAIKATO.AC.NZ
(via internet))

Equal Opportunity is University policy.  Enquiries are welcome from all
suitable applicants.  Places for appointees' children may be available in
the creche run by the Campus Creche Society (Inc).

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From: tarr-michael@CS.YALE.EDU ("Michael J. Tarr")
Subject: (5) Petition: A Broader Agenda for Computer Science and Engineering

  A petition sponsored by John McCarthy, Bob Boyer, Jack Minker,
  John Mitchell, and Nils Nilsson.

Dear Colleagues in Computer Science, Cognitive Science, and Engineering:

We are asking you to join us in asking the Computer Science and
Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council to withdraw
for revision its report entitled ``Computing the Future: A Broader
Agenda for Computer Science and Engineering'', because we consider it
misleading and even harmful as an agenda for future research.  Our
objections include its defining computer science in terms of a narrow
set of applied objectives, and its implication that the tone of
computer science is to be set by government agencies, university
administrators and industrialists and that computer scientists are
just the ``soldiers on the ground''.

There is much useful information in the report, but the Preface and
the Executive Summary characterize computer science in a way that no
other science would accept.  Chapter 2, ``Looking to the Future of
CS&E'', and Chapter 3, ``A Core CS&E Research Agenda for the Future''
should also not be accepted by computer scientists.  The Report merges
computer science and computer engineering at the cost of abolishing
computer science and seriously narrowing computer engineering.

Besides individual scientists, we hope that some computer science
departments will collectively join in requesting the report's
withdrawal.

Our campaign for the report's withdrawal is being conducted entirely
by electronic mail, and we will be grateful to anyone who forwards
this message to others who might be concerned.  Email to
signatures@cs.stanford.edu will be counted as signing the
petition, not as necessarily agreeing to everything in this message.
In fact, the sponsors of this message are committed to the petition
and not necessarily to every detail of the message.  We haven't taken
the time to hash out every detail.  So ``sign'' if you endorse the
petition.

[The Latex source of the arguments against the report
document is available by anonymous ftp from sail.stanford.edu under
the name /pub/jmc/whysign.tex.  The other two documents are
/pub/jmc/petition.tex for the petition itself and /pub/jmc/preface.tex
for the preface and executive summary of the NRC report.  A
non-Latex email message containing both the petition and arguments for it
may be found under the name /pub/jmc/petition-why.]

As of 1992 September 4, the sponsors of this request are
Bob Boyer, boyer@cs.utexas.edu,
John McCarthy, jmc@cs.stanford.edu,
Jack Minker, minker@cs.umd.edu,
John Mitchell, jcm@cs.stanford.edu
and
Nils Nilsson, nilsson@cs.stanford.edu.  John McCarthy may be telephoned
at 415 723-4430.

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From: max@currawong.bhs.mq.edu.au (Max Coltheart)
Subject: (6) Employment: 2 psychol. positions, Macquarie U. Sydney, Austral

MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES
SENIOR LECTURER/LECTURER IN PSYCHOLOGY
(Tenurable)
Ref: 740446C

  Applicants should have expertise in the general area of
  Psychopathology.  The appointee will be responsible for
  postgraduate (MA (Clin.Psych), MA (Counselling)) and undergraduate
  teaching in Psychopathology, and will contribute to related
  postgraduate and undergraduate units.  It is expected that the
  appointee will supervise the research of honours and postgraduate
  students.

  Applicants  should  hold a PhD or  equivalent,  have  an
  active research program, have research publications, and
  have  had  experience in undergraduate  or  postgraduate
  teaching.  Preference will be given to applicants with a
  professional    clinical    background.       Enquiries:
  Associate  Professor G. Cooney (02) 805 8067 or  Dr.  D.
  Hewson (02) 805 8019.

  Salary range:  Lecturer (Level B): $41 000 to $48 688
  Senior Lecturer (Level C): $50 225 to $57 913

  Further information about the University, conditions  of
  appointment,  and  the method of application  should  be
  obtained from the Recruitment Manager, Personnel Office,
  Macquarie  University, NSW 2109, or by telephoning  (02)
  805 7391, facsimile (02) 805 7398.

  Applications close on 25 September 1992
  The position is available from 1 February, 1993.

  Equality of Employment Opportunity is University Policy

Max Coltheart, School of Behavioural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney,
NSW 2109, Australia.     Tel (02) 808 8086.      Fax (02) 805 8062.
Email: max@currawong.bhs.mq.edu.au or mcolthea@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au

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From: PSYC4@VAXA.YORK.AC.UK
Subject: (7) Conference: Computers in Psychology, U of York, UK

          Computers in Psychology Conference CiP 93
                      University of York
                    7th - 8th January 1993

CiP 93 will examine issues relating to the rapid expansion of computer
use in psychology research, teaching and practice.  The conference will
provide a forum for sharing ideas and expertise amongst researchers,
developers and lecturers.

Submissions on the following topics are invited:
    o Models of technology-based learning
    o Computer-supported group work
    o Supporting laboratory courses
    o Demonstrations, tutorials and simulations
    o Data collection, management and analysis
    o Research applications and experimental control
    o Psychological assessment
    o Courseware development and evaluation
    o Networks and communication

Submissions illuminating issues in the use of existing
technologies as well as reports of leading edge
developments are encouraged.

Deadlines

Submission of abstracts:                     26th October
Notification of acceptance:                  Mid November
Submissions for
Psychology Teaching Review (papers):          4th January
CiP 93 Conference:                      7th - 8th January
Submissions for
Psychology Teaching Review (reports):       26th February

All enquiries should be addressed to:
Annie Trapp
CTI Centre for Psychology
University of York
York, YO1 5DD UK
Tel:   +44 904 433156
Fax:   +44 904 432917
Email: ctipsych@uk.ac.york

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From: JIM STARR ALAPY20@HUMAIN.BitNet (HOWARD UNIVERSITY, PSYCHOLOGY)
Subject: (8) Meeting: Society for Cross-Cultural Research (SCCR)

          SOCIETY FOR CROSS-CULTURAL RESEARCH (SCCR)
                     1993 ANNUAL MEETINGS

For information contact:

	ELECTRONIC MAIL:   ALAPY2O@HUMAIN.BITNET
        POSTAL ADDRESS :   Department of Psychology
        Howard University
        Washington, DC  20059
        U.S.A.
        TELEPHONE      :   (202) 806-6805
        FAX            :   (202) 806-4873

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From: Georg Dorffner <georg@ai.univie.ac.at>
Subject: (9) Workshop: NIPS Symbol Grounding Workshop


    Neural Information Processing Systems Conference NIPS*92
		 Workshop on:
        Connectionist Approaches to Symbol Grounding
           December 4/5 1992,  Vail, Colorado

DURATION: 1 Day

INTENDED AUDIENCE:  psychologists, linguists, and AI researchers
                    interested in the learning of categories and the role
                    of symbols from a cognitive science perspective

ORGANIZERS:
Georg Dorffner           Michael Gasser            Stevan Harnad
georg@ai.univie.ac.at    gasser@cs.indiana.edu     harnad@princeton.edu


DESCRIPTION:
In recent years, there has been increasing discomfort with the
disembodied nature of symbols that is a hallmark of the symbolic
paradigm in cognitive science and artificial intelligence and at the
same time increasing interest in the potential offered by connectionist
models to ``ground'' symbols.  In ignoring the mechanisms by which
their symbols get ``hooked up'' to sensory and motor processes, that
is, the mechanisms by which intelligent systems develop categories,
symbolists have missed out on what is not only one of the more
challenging areas in cognitive science but, some would argue, the very
heart of what cognition is about.  This workshop will focus on issues
in neural network based approaches to the grounding of symbols and
symbol structures.  In particular, connectionist models of
categorisation and of label-category association will be discussed in
the light of the symbol grounding problem.

ALL INQUIRIES: Georg Dorffner <georg@ai.univie.ac.at>

PROGRAM (not yet final):

MORNING SESSION:

"Grounding Symbols in the Analog World of Objects: Can Neural
Nets Make the Connection?"
Stevan Harnad, Princeton University

"Learning Perceptually Grounded Lexical Semantics"
Terry Regier, ICSI Berkeley

T.B.A.
Gary Cottrell, Univ. of California, San Diego

"Learning Perceptual Dimensions" Michael Gasser, Indiana University


AFTERNOON SESSION:

"Symbols and External Embodiments - why grounding has to go two ways"
Georg Dorffner, University of Vienna

"Grounding Symbols on Conceptual Knowledge" Philippe Schyns, MIT

T.B.A. (?)
Yves Chauvin, Stanford University (not certain yet)

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From: Helga Dyck <umih@ccu.UManitoba.CA>
Subject: (10) Electronic Publishing Conference

             A CONSORTIUM FOR NETWORK PUBLICATION
               OF REFEREED RESEARCH JOURNALS

               First Advance Notice

The University of Manitoba has received funding commitments to organize
and hold an international conference to promote the establishment of a
consortium of universities and learned societies to sponsor computer
network publication of refereed journals. The consortium would be a
non-profit publishing cooperative intended to make use of the Internet
as an important medium for the publication of scholarly research in any
discipline.

Since the summer of 1991, an ad hoc group at the University of Manitoba
has been developing the idea of the conference and the proposed
consortium and has been working on funding proposals since the Autumn
of 1991. The conference is now tentatively slated for the Autumn of
1993 and will be held at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
We hope to enlist the interest and cooperation of major research
universities and learned societies across North America and elsewhere.
Over the next year or so, we will be communicating the vision behind
the conference and consortium to the academic community. This is the
first advance notice; we plan to provide updates with more specific
information on the conference details as plans for it develop.

As an analogy of sorts for the proposed consortium, in the traditional
publishing of books and paper journals, Scholars Press (Atlanta,
Georgia) is a unique example of such a cooperative, operating under
several major U.S. learned societies (e.g., American Academy of
Religion, Society of Biblical Literature, American Philological
Society), with a number of universities in the U.S. and Canada as
sponsors of particular publication projects such as major monograph
series. It is an example of groups in the academic community taking
collective responsibility to see that worthy scholarship gets
published, without commercial considerations determining the question.

The Internet is the major new medium for dissemination of research, and
it is vital that the scholarly community, through its major
institutions of universities and learned societies, become acquainted
with the enormous potential of the Internet for scholarship. Commercial
companies are already devoting attention to developing computer network
publication projects. It is imperative that the scholarly community not
leave this major medium to be developed solely by commercial interests.

The basic aims are (1) to make academic merit the sole consideration in
the publication of journal-type research, (2) to advance the idea that
the academic community should have a hand in determining what gets
published and how it is disseminated, (3) to provide a major outlet for
research publication that is not subject to the severe economic
constraints of traditional paper-journal publishing (soaring costs in
some commercially attractive fields, very limited journal outlets for
less commercially attractive fields), (4) to make collective and
considered use of the scholarly advantages of network publication
(e.g., savings in production costs, speed up in publication and
dissemination process), (5) to provide an effective and low-cost means
for universities and learned societies to play a greater role as
disseminators of research information and not only as producers and
consumers of research information.

Our initial objective at this point is to inform as many in the
scholarly community as possible of the conference and the consortium
proposal, and to solicit interest in these plans. Please contact us for
more information, and to be kept informed on the progress in our
planning. We also sincerely invite you to offer your ideas on things to
be included in the conference, key people to inform and possibly invite
to the conference, and any other matters relevant to the conference and
consortium proposal.

For more information, and to express your interests in the conference
and consortium, contact the convenor of the University of Manitoba ad
hoc Committee on Electronic Journals, Professor Larry W. Hurtado,
Institute for the Humanities, 108 Isbister Bldg., University of
Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2. Phone:  (204) 474-9114. FAX
(204) 275-5781. E-mail: hurtado@ccu.umanitoba.ca

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