[alicebot-archcomm] archcomm membership

[Freeman, Eric]

Richard,

I thought I'd stepped down long ago?

Hope all is well,

Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: Dr. Rich Wallace [mailto:drwallace@alicebot.org] 
Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 11:28 PM
To: alicebot-archcomm@list.alicebot.org
Subject: Re: [alicebot-archcomm] archcomm membership


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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