[alicebot-archcomm] archcomm membership

[Dr. Rich Wallace]

Oh, okay.  You may want to check out Pandorabots.com and see if there is
anything there that can help your work at DIG.

Rich

> 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
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>>> drwallace@www.alicebot.org
>>>
>>>
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Dr. Rich
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