[alicebot-archcomm] archcomm membership

[Dr. Rich Wallace]

Hi Yuri, good to hear from you.  Congratulations on your appointment at
BYU. Is that a regular faculty job?  We should update your bio.

Many universities will reimburse your personal expenses for joining
professional associations.  You may also be able to budget it as part of a
research grant.


> Rich,
>
> I know I haven't really contributed much to the committee although I
> have offered to do so in the past.  However, I recently joined the
> Computer Science department at Brigham Young University.  I will see if
> the university wantst to join the foundation.  I certainly can't afford
> it it mysefl because of financial hardship over the past year.  However,
> I am planning to start contributing more in the near future as I have
> some ideas and personal interests in extending the AIML language.  What
> I am trying to do is create tools for the the supervised semi-automated
> generation of AIML categories from unstructured text.  This is something
> I am planning to do with some folks from the linguistics department at
> our university.
>
> So a short answer to your inquiry, is yes I plan to join and will try to
> convince my department to pay the suggested fee.  However, I need some
> time to find out what I need to do get approval as I just joined less
> than 6 weeks ago the university.
>
> Yuri Tijerino
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dr. Rich Wallace" <drwallace@alicebot.org>
> To: <alicebot-archcomm@list.alicebot.org>
> Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 11:48 AM
> Subject: [alicebot-archcomm] archcomm membership
>
>
>> I am writing to solicit early feedback from the Architecture committee
>> on your plans for 2003-2004.
>>
>> The A. I. Foundation is going to ask members of the Architecture
>> committee who have not already done so to formally join the Foundation
>> as members. Those archcomm members who represent large corporations or
>> institutions should try to encourage their companies to become Gold
>> sponsors of the AIF like Franz, Pandorabots, and Oddcast have, and
>> give $1000 per year. Individual professional consultants should join
>> at the Silver membership level of $100 per year.  Students, retired,
>> youth and disabled members may join for $25 per year.
>>
>> Any architecture committee member who has made a significant
>> contribution and who faces an overwhelming financial hardship, and who
>> wishes to continue to participate in the A. I. Foundation Architecture
>> Committee activities after his term expires in June, 2003, may write
>> me a letter explaining his or her circumstances and I will certainly
>> take them into account when reappointing the committee.
>>
>> The Board and I thank those members of the Architecture committee who
>> have already joined the A.I. Foundation as corporate Gold members,
>> Individual Silver members, student Bronze members, and anonymously.
>>
>>
>> http://www.alicebot.org/join.html
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Rich
>> W A L L A C E
>> ALICE A.I. Foundation
>> drwallace@www.alicebot.org
>>
>>
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Dr. Rich
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