Paul S. Rosenbloom is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of Southern California.
“Before I retired, I was also Director for Cognitive Architecture research at the Institute for Creative Technologies. I have pursued research in artificial intelligence for most of the last 45 years, focused on integrated cognition/intelligence; that is, on how to combine the core mechanisms necessary to yield general human-like intelligence. I am a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, the Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Cognitive Science Society.”

Christian Lebiere is a Research Faculty in the Psychology Department at Carnegie Mellon University, having received his Ph.D. from the CMU School of Computer Science. Since 1991, he has worked on the development of the ACT-R cognitive architecture and was co-author with John R. Anderson of the 1998 book ‘The Atomic Components of Thought’. Most recently, he has been involved with John Laird and Paul Rosenbloom in defining the Common Model of Cognition, a community-wide effort to consolidate and formalize the scientific progress resulting from the 40-year research program in cognitive architectures.

John E. Laird is the John L. Tishman Professor of Engineering, University of Michigan.
“My major research interest is in creating human-level artificial intelligent entities, with an emphasis on the underlying cognitive architecture. As part of my research, I study both artificial and natural intelligence.”