From: jmh@coyote.datalog.com (John Hughes)
Subject: SUMMARY: AI/Cog. Sci. Grad. Program Recommendations (LONG)
Followup-To: comp.ai
Keywords: AI cognitive science graduate school college
Organization: If I have any at all, I'm keeping it a secret
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 12:31:09 GMT

The following summary was prepared from responses received to a request
posted on the USENET newsgroups asking for recommendations for graduate
level programs in AI and Cognitive Science which are oriented towards
high-level theoretical studies of various issues in the field.
The geographical area of interest is the Eastern US.

To all of those who tool the time to respond: Thank You.
 
 
Responses
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  Carnegie Mellon University
  Georgia Institute of Technology
  Indiana University
  Iowa State University
  Johns Hopkins University
  SUNY Buffalo
  University of Massachusetts (Amherst)
  University of Rochester
  University of Georgia (Athens)
  University of Toronto
  University of Pittsburgh
  Yale University
 
 
Summaries
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     Note that the internet addresses given here are for the purpose of
attribution of quotations only. Please use the contact information in
the next section to request official information about a specific
program. Also please note that in those cases where the response did
not contain sufficient information to create a summary, I simply
didn't. It doesn't mean the program is lacking in any way, I just
didn't get enough information to summarize.
     My apologies in advance for the way I've lifted selected parts of
some of the relies - the whole response file is now well over 40K
bytes, so I didn't know if I would get shot for posting the whole
thing. Some of the replies are quite lengthy and very detailed. If you
want a copy of the raw summary file, send e-mail to me and I'll send it
to you.
 
 
Georgia Institute of Technology

     "Our group consists of a core faculty primarily made up from the
  AI research group in the College of Computing, members of the faculty
  in the School of Psychology, and faculty from the Center for
  Human-Machine Systems Research in the School of Industrial and
  Systems Engineering.
     To students in each of the three main groups we offer a Cognitive
  Science certificate program in collaboration with our colleagues in
  other academic units.  This is an interdisciplinary program dealing
  with fundamental problems in cognition."
     The Summer 91 issue of AI Magazine (vol. 12, no. 2) describes some
  of our ongoing projects in AI.  Abstracts from our most recent
  graduate student conference in Cognitive Science are published in a
  tech report.  You can get copies of reports describing the AI and
  Cognitive Science research in more detail by sending e-mail to
  <ai-secretary@cc.gatech.edu>." - Ashwin Ram, ashwin@cc.gatech.edu
 
Indiana University
 
     "Indiana University has recently mounted a major initiative in
  cognitive science, and a program has been underway since 1989. 
  Applications from prospective graduate students are being actively
  sought.
     There is a thriving research community in cognitive science at the
  university. This centers especially around the departments of
  Computer Science, Psychology, Linguistics and Philosophy, but there
  is also much opportunity for interaction with other areas.
     There are also a number a number of separate Research Centers. 
  The most relevant of these is the Center for Research on Concepts and
  Cognition, which is affiliated with Computer Science, Psychology and
  Philosophy, and is headed by Douglas Hofstadter.  This is a small
  group of 6-10 researchers concerned with a broad area of cognitive
  science.  The major focus is on emergent models of high-level
  perception and analogical thought; other areas of active research
  include philosophy of mind, connectionism, humor, translation, and
  creativity. The Center from time to time takes on graduate students,
  who are usually already affiliated with one of the departments.
     All graduate degrees in Cognitive Science must be associated with
  another department's major.  There are two options: (1) A combined
  Ph.D. with double major in Cognitive Science and another field. (2) A
  Ph.D. in the original field, with a minor in Cognitive Science." -
  David Chalmers, dave@cogsci.indiana.edu
 
Johns Hopkins University
 
     "We have three Computer Science faculty here doing work in AI,
  including some more theoretical work.  Our main areas are machine
  learning, parallel algorithms for AI problems, computer vision, and
  constraint systems.  We also have a Cognitive Science Dept that
  focuses on problems in neuropsychology and natural language.  One of
  the members of that dept, who has a PhD in Computer Science from MIT,
  has a joint appointment in the Computer Science Dept.  The strongest
  area of the Computer Science Dept here is theory, so all of our
  students receive excellent training in that area." - Steven Salzberg,
  salzberg@blaze.cs.jhu.edu
 
SUNY Buffalo
 
     "We have a good grad program in CS in general with a strong
  emphasis on AI as well as connections with our Center for Cognitive
  Science (with a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary research)." -
  William J. Rapaport, rapaport@cs.Buffalo.EDU
 
University of Massachusetts (Amherst)
 
     "(The) University of Massachusetts at Amherst has one of the best
  programs in AI and also has a well funded, broad department in
  Computer Science in general. In AI there are faculty working in a
  wide range of areas including Connectionism and Neuroscience (Andrew
  Barto), NLP and case Based Reasoning (Wendy Lehnert, Edwina
  Rissland), Vision (Edward Riseman, Allen Hanson, Chip Weems),
  Robotics (Robbin Popplestone, Rod Grupen), Distributed AI (Victor
  Lesser, Dan Corkill), Large Scale planning (Paul Cohen), Machine
  Learning (Paul Utgoff) and we are also going to hire some more AI
  faculty. Besides, Amherst area is famous for its Cognitive Science
  program known as the Five College Cognitive Science Program (I dont
  know the details). Besides, the Psychology Department of UMass is
  also well known in the areas of Cognitive Science and Behaviourism."
  - Nagi, nagi@envy.cs.umass.edu  
 
University of Georgia
 
     "The University of Georgia in Athens has a highly inter-
  disciplinary Master's program in AI.
     The program has few requirements, most of which are introductory
  computer science classes, and therefore there is a great deal of
  freedom to write the thesis you want.  They concentrate on Prolog,
  which is atypical for an American AI program.  It is a two year
  program with a thesis and an oral defense.  Their research interests
  include expert systems, logic programming, natural language
  processing..." - Marcus A. Maloof, mmaloof@gmuvax2.gmu.edu
 
University of Toronto
 
     "The University of Toronto has (if I may be immodest for a moment)
  a large and distinguished group of AI faculty: Levesque, Reiter,
  Hinton, etc." - Graeme Hirst, gh@cs.toronto.edu
 
University of Pittsburgh
 
     "...an interdisciplinary program in AI with faculty drawn from the
  Computer Science, Linguistics, Psychology, Philosophy and other
  departments." - Anandeep Pannu, asp+@pitt.edu
 
     "The program is flexible and draws on faculty from CS, Psych,
  etc." -   <name unknown>, dejst5+@pitt.edu
 
Yale University
 
     "Artificial Intelligence is the study of computational models of
  mind.  At Yale, there are a wide variety of topics studied, including
  knowledge representation, inference, planning, learning, vision,
  robotics, and neural networks." (taken from the Computer Science
  Department graduate handbook) - Sean Philip Engelson,
  engelson-sean@CS.YALE.EDU
 
 
 
Contacts
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Some of the responses did not provide a contact address. The
information should be available in the graduate catalogs for those
schools not listed here.
 
Georgia Institute of Technology
 
  Office of Student Services
  College of Computing
  Georgia Institute of Technology
  Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0280
 
Indiana University
 
  Admissions Committee
  Cognitive Science Program
  Psychology Building
  Indiana University
  Bloomington, IN 47405
 
Iowa State University
 
  Vasant Honavar
  Assistant Professor
  Department of Computer Science
  226 Atanasoff Hall
  Iowa State University
  Ames, IA 50011-1040  
 
Johns Hopkins University
 
  Department of Computer Science
  Johns Hopkins University
  Baltimore, MD 21218
 
SUNY Buffalo
 
  Prof. Leonard Talmy, Director
  Center for Cognitive Science
  652 Baldy Hall
  SUNY Buffalo
  Buffalo, NY 14260
  talmy@acsu.buffalo.edu
 
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
 
  Department of Computer Science
  LGRC
  University of Massachusetts
  Amherst, MA 01002
 
University of Georgia
 
  Dr. Don Potter
  Graduate Coordinator
  Artificial Intelligence Programs
  The University of Georgia
  Athens, GA  30602
 
University of Pittsburgh
  Stefni Agin 
  Program Secretary
  Intelligent Systems Program
  901 Cathedral of Learning
  University of Pittsburgh
  Pittsburgh, PA 15260
 

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