State of the Program Undergraduate Program in Cognitive Science Spring 2018

State of the Program Everything is Great! It’s unbelievable how Great it is, believe me!

Size and Make-up of Majors 61 active COGS majors (32 M, 29 F) By year (active only) 9 seniors 18 juniors 17 sophomores 17 freshmen By major: COGS: 25 COGS/CSCI: 28 COGS/MATH: 3 COGS/ITWS: 2 Other COGS duals: 3 (GSAS, PSYC, CSYS)

Curriculum

COGS Core Courses … and Possible Substitutes Intro to Cognitive Neuroscience Behavioral Neuroscience, other Neuroscience course Sensation and Perception Metaphysics & Consciousness Cognitive Modeling Programming for AI and Cog Sci, Intelligent Virtual Agents, Affective Computing, Mathematical Methods for Psychological Science Intro to AI Game AI, Learning & Advanced Game AI Introduction to Linguistics (for Catalog 2016 and later)

Senior Thesis Find a Faculty Member to do your Thesis with: Your Thesis Faculty Advisor Fill out thesis form with Thesis Faculty Advisor (bring to Registrar before add deadline) Thesis Faculty Advisor will lay out requirements of thesis Meetings Literature Research Experimental Research Write-Up You do not have to do thesis in last semester

Online Courses Udacity (~40 courses, mostly CSCI, self-paced, wide variety of course lengths) Introduction to AI, Artificial Intelligence for Robotics, The Design of Everyday Things Coursera (500+ courses; wide variety) Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, Computational Neuroscience, Natural Language Processing, etc. EdX (100+ courses, various fields) Possibility of getting Independent Study credits for successful completion of courses (Add Deadline: Monday, 1/29)

Wednesday Issues in Cognitive Science Seminar It is possible for undergraduates to receive 1 credit through the Issues in Cognitive Science Lecture Series: Write 1 page response paper about talk for 6 talks of your choice Register for COGS 2940/4940 “Issues in Cognitive Science” Restricted to COGS majors or minors or dual majors with PHIL or PSYC

Speakers This Semester February 28, Yorick Wilks, Florida Institute of Human and Machine Cognition “Will there be Superintelligence … and would it hate us?” March 28, Teresa Amabile, Harvard Business School Creativity? April 11, Tomek Strzalkowski, Computer Science, SUNY Albany Artificial Intelligence May 2, John Bargh, Psychology, Yale University Cognition and Motivation All other talks this semester are by COGS graduate students For a complete schedule of speakers go to Speaker Series on the Cognitive Science department home page If you think of a potential speaker, let me know!

Research

Undergraduate Research Cog Sci students are strongly encouraged to do hands-on research Undergraduate Research Program (URP) http://www.rpi.edu/dept/urp Fill out URP form: You have to write a 500 word proposal! for course credit (deadline = course add deadline = January 29) Also fill out an Independent Study/URP Registration form for $ (February 2) Research can be used for Senior Thesis

Summer URP (SURP) at RPI Competitive program Applications reviewed by multiple faculty Stipend for 10-week summer research Need to find faculty member willing to support research efforts and contribute ¼ of $$ Deadline: February 16! SURP

Arch: Fall-Away Semester RPI Competitive program Applications reviewed by multiple faculty 10-week fall away semester research Need to find faculty member willing to support research efforts and contribute 1/2 of $$ Deadline: March 12! SURP

Other Summer Programs Undergraduate Summer Fellowship Program in Vision Science, University of Rochester May 31 – July 31 Deadline: February 1 (!)

Another One … Undergraduate Summer Internship in Cognitive Development, University of Virginia June 6 – July 31 Deadline: February 28

And Another One … Summer Workshop in Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of Delaware June 4-15 Travel, Stipend, Room and Board provided Deadline: ?? (see website)

Research Labs / Groups Computational Cognition Lab (slides) CogWorks Lab (slides) Led by Dr. Wayne Gray Language Endowed Intelligent Agents (LEIA) Lab (slides) Led by Dr. Marjorie McShane and Dr. Sergei Nirenburg Social Interaction (SI) Lab (slides) Led by Dr. Mei Si Perception And Action (PAndA) Lab (slides) Led by Dr. Brett Fajen Rensselaer Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (RAIR) Lab (slides) Led by Dr. Selmer Bringsjord Cognitive Architecture (CogArch) Lab Led by Dr. Ron Sun Computational Cognition Lab (slides) Led by Dr. Chris Sims Department page to Cognitive Research Labs Department page to Cognitive Science Research Areas

Visual Reasoning Research Page

Paperwork Declare or add Cognitive Science Major Fill out Change of Major form Curriculum Coordinator: Betty Osganian (Sage 4301) 1 credit for Issues in Cognitive Science lectures Fill out Independent Study form COGS 2940/4940 “Issues in Cognitive Science” Senior Thesis Find thesis advisor Fill out Thesis Registration form URP Fill out URP form For credit: Fill out Independent Study form as well Credits to be determined by project advisor Deadline = Course Add Deadline: Monday, 1/29 For $ (URP matches up to $400): Find faculty member with $! Deadline: Friday, 2/2