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Issues in Cognitive Science - Video Archive

Romann Weber and Jason Ralph

November 2, 2011 12:00 PM

RPI Graduate Students present their research

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Jon Matthis and Evan Patton

October 26, 2011 12:00 PM

RPI Graduate Students present their research

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James H. Moor, Prof Dept of Philosophy, Dartmouth College

October 19, 2011 12:00 PM

Title:  How Are Ethical Robots Possible?

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Nick Wilson and Richard Caneba

October 12, 2011 12:00 PM

RPI Graduate students present their research

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Bonnie John, Carnegie Mellon

October 5, 2011 12:00 PM

Deploying CogTool: Integrating Quantitative Usability Assessment with Cognitive Modeling into Real-World Software Development

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Chris Eliasmith, University of Waterloo, Canada

September 28, 2011 12:00 PM

Title:  How to build a brain: From single cells to cognitive systems

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Stephen Pink, Dartmouth NH; Lancaster University UK

September 21, 2011 12:00 PM

Schrödinger's Register and Penrose's Oracle Machine: Foundational Issues and Physical Realization

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William Rapaport, SUNY Buffalo

September 14, 2011 12:00 PM

Title:  How Cognition *Could Be* Computing

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Jim Davies, Asst. Professor, Carleton University , Director of the Science Imagination Laboratory

August 31, 2011 12:00 PM

Title:  Using Data to Drive Imagination Modeling

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Stephen J. Read, University of Southern California

May 4, 2011 12:00 PM

Title: A neural network model of the structure and dynamics of human personality 

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Stacy Marsella, University of Southern California

March 30, 2011 12:30 PM

Stacy Marsella will talk about "Hot Blooded Virtual Humans: Making emotional automatons"

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Rick P. Cooper, Reader in CogSci, Dept of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London

March 9, 2011 12:00 PM

Title: Empirical and Computational Studies of Response Inhibition in 'Executive' Tasks 

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Bharat B. Biswall, Associate Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, NJ Medical School

February 16, 2011 12:00 PM

Title:  Functional MRI:  Methods and Application

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Andy Clark

February 9, 2011 12:00 PM

Andy Clark's Natural-Born Cyborgs? Reflections on Bodies, Minds, and Human Enhancement

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Gregory DeAngelo, RPI Economics

January 26, 2011 12:00 PM

Title:  The Role of Risk and Uncertainty in Multi-Reference Point Models of Utility

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Bella Veksler, Grad Student Presentation

December 8, 2010 12:00 PM

Title:   Clustering Judgments: A Comparison Between a Paper and Online Study

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Magda Osman, Queen Mary University of London

November 22, 2010 12:00 PM

Title:  How does dynamic decision making work in complex situations?

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Soledad Vedovato/ Jinrong Li Grad Student Presentations

November 10, 2010 12:00 PM

Title: The Cognitive Science of Programming: An Update

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Chris Sims, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester

November 3, 2010 12:00 PM

Title: Studying the coordination of cognitive, perceptual, and motor processes in interactive behavior

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Jim Hendler, Tetherless World Chair of Computer and Cognitive Science

October 20, 2010 12:00 PM

Title:  We are the Web:  The future of the social machine

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Jason Ralph, Grad Student Presentation

October 13, 2010 12:00 PM

Analyzing The Effects of Instrumental and Cognitive Workload on the Control of Cognition at the Time Scale of Interactive Behavior

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Yorick Wilks, Florida Institute of Human and Machine Cognition

October 6, 2010 12:00 PM

Title:  Internet Companions: technical and cognitive issues

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Jim Fahey, RPI Professor

September 29, 2010 12:00 PM

Title:  Emergence:  Some History, Problems and Prospects

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James E. Cutting, Cornell University

September 22, 2010 12:00 PM

Title:  "Attention, intensity, and the evolution of Hollywood film"

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Lawrence W. Barsalou, Department of Psychology, Emery University

September 15, 2010 12:00 PM

Title:Grounding Knowledge in the Brain's Modal Systems

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Josh Bongard, University of Vermont

September 1, 2010 12:00 PM

Title: Resillient Machines

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Paul Thagard, University of Waterloo, Canada

May 5, 2010 12:00 PM

Who Are You?  The Self as a System of Multilevel Interacting Mechanisms

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Peter Kugel, Boston College

April 7, 2010 12:00 PM

Title:  "Minds may be computers but..."

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Jinrong Li/Alvaro Graves Fuenzalida RPI Grad Student Presentations

March 31, 2010 12:00 AM

Title: Towards a better understanding of Social Machines

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Trevor Housten and Romann weber, RPI Graduate Students

March 24, 2010 12:00 PM

Romann Weber: Title - The Chemical Vocabulary of Cognition
Trevor Housten: Title - Paraconsistent Logic: Teaching Machines to Dream

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Soledad Vedovato/Nick Wilson, RPI Graduate Student Presentations

March 17, 2010 12:00 AM

Title:Semantics of Ellipsis and Coordination through a Cognitive Substrate

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Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland

February 17, 2010 1:00 PM

Dr. Ben Shneiderman
Professor in the Department of Computer Science
University of Maryland, College Park

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Whitney Tabor, University of Connecticut

February 10, 2010 12:00 PM

Title:  The Self-Organization of Linguistic Behavior

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Gerwin Schalk, Research Scientist, Wadsworth Ctr

January 27, 2010 12:00 PM

Brain-Computer Interfaces:  Prospects and Problems

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Gabe Diaz, Graduate Student

December 9, 2009 12:00 PM

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Matthew Botvinick, Princeton

December 2, 2009 12:00 PM

Title:  Cognitive and neural foundations of goal-directed decision making: An integrative framework

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Yili Liu, University of Michigan

November 11, 2009 12:00 PM

A Queueing Network Theory of Mental Architecture

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Professor Selmer Bringsjord, Chair, Dept of Cognitive Science

October 14, 2009 12:00 PM

  Toward a Formal Definition of Evil (in Support of Compelling Digital Characters like E and Arnie)

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Bram van Heuveln

October 7, 2009 12:00 PM

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Student Presentations

September 30, 2009 12:00 PM

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Deborah McGuinness, Sr. Constellation Prof of Tetherless World

September 16, 2009 12:00 PM

Title:  Ontologies are Everywhere - Now What?

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RPI Grad Students Presentations

May 6, 2009 12:00 PM

Nick Wilson, Gabe Diaz, James Michelis

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Jon Kaas, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN

April 29, 2009 12:00 PM

The Evolution of the Human Brain

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Robert Deaner, Grand Valley State University

April 22, 2009 12:00 PM

  Title: Bringing Evolutionary Theory to Psychology: the Case of Red Sox Nation

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RPI, Graduate Student Presentations

April 15, 2009 12:00 PM

Romann Weber, Jon Matthis, Jason Ralph, Michel Brudzinski 

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Ken Forbus, Northwestern Univ

April 8, 2009 12:00 PM

Steps Towards Human-Level AI

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Thomas Stoffregen

March 25, 2009 12:00 PM

Postural instability and motion sickness.

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William Tracy, Asst. Prof., Lally School of Mngt. & Tech. RPI

March 18, 2009 12:00 PM

Title:  Paradox Lost: Evolved "rationality" and the Chain Store Game

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Mike Byrne, Assoc Prof. Psy & Comp Sci, Rice University

March 4, 2009 12:00 PM

An Information Theoretic Approach to Visual Salience in ACT-R Michael D. Byrne & Clayton T. Stanley Rice University

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Dan Veksler Grad Student

February 25, 2009 12:00 PM

Title: Adaptive Autonomous Agents

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Perrin Bignoli, Grad Student, RPI

February 18, 2009 12:00 PM

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Ben Goertzel, PhD., Director of Research , SIAI

February 11, 2009 12:00 PM

TITLE:
Embodying Learning Systems  in Virtual Worlds:
From Trainable Virtual Pets to Human-Level Artificial General Intelligence

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Christopher Cherniak, University of Maryland

February 4, 2009 12:00 PM

Title:  "The Best of All Possible Brains?" -- The Why's of Neural Optimization

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B. "Chandra" Chandrasekaran

January 28, 2009 12:00 PM

Laboratory for AI Research
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
The Ohio State University

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Bram van Heuveln

January 21, 2009 12:00 PM

Introduction to Minds and Machines - Undergraduates

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Karen Adolph, Professor, Depart of Psychology, NYU

January 14, 2009 12:00 PM

Locomotion - moving the body from place to place - is one of infants' greatest achievements.

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Michael Lynch, Clinical Assistant Professor, Dept LLC, RPI

December 3, 2008 12:00 PM

Dramatically altering CLARION:  Adapting a cognitive architecture for interactive storytelling

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Grad Student Presentations

November 19, 2008 12:00 PM

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Dave Touretzy, Research Professor,Carnegie Mellon University

November 12, 2008 12:00 PM

"Dual-Coding Representations for Robot Vision"

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Micah Clark, Graduate Student

October 29, 2008 12:00 PM

Title:  "Slate:  An Argument-Centered Intelligent Assistant to Human Reasoners"

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William Warren, Professor and Chair, Brown University

October 8, 2008 12:00 PM

The Dynamics of Perception and Action:  From Bouncing Babies to Legged Locomotion

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Dr. Daphne Bavelier, Issues

October 1, 2008 12:00 PM

Action video game playing enhances vision and perceptual decision making.

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Jim Hendler, Sr. Constellation Professor of Tetherless World, RPI

September 24, 2008 12:00 PM

Ontological Myths:  Reducing the Confusion

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Unmesh Kurup, Post Doc, RPI

September 17, 2008 12:00 PM

Some Differences between Internal and External Diagrams

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Prof Gary Marcus, NYU

September 10, 2008 12:00 PM

Language as Kluge

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Gabe Diaz - Grad Student Presentation

April 16, 2008 12:00 PM

Intercepting Moving Targets: A Little Foresight Helps Alot.

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Formal Analytic Modeling of Inter-cultural "Bridge Blogs" as Personal Narrative

April 9, 2008 12:00 PM

Formal Analytic Modeling of Inter-cultural "Bridge Blogs" as Personal Narrative

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Towards a principled account of the mental representation of shape

March 26, 2008 12:00 PM

Jacob Feldman, Professor, Center for Cognitive Science Rutgers University - New Brunswick

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Operator Functional State Assessment and Application

March 19, 2008 11:15 AM

Glenn F. Wilson, Ph.D, AFRL, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

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Bill Mckibbon

October 2, 2003 12:00 AM

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Perception-Action Relations In Catching a Fly Ball

March 28, 2003 12:00 PM

Speaker: Claire Michaels

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Collision Control

March 21, 2003 12:00 PM

Speaker: John Flach

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How We Reason

February 28, 2003 12:00 PM

Speaker: Philip Johnson-Laird

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Ron Sun

January 30, 2003 12:00 PM

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Stephanie Doane

January 15, 2003 12:00 PM

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Micki Chi

November 6, 2002 12:00 PM

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