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=============================================================================== LATEST UPDATE LATEST UPDATE (20 June 1994) LATEST UPDATE LATEST UPDATE =============================================================================== NOTE: A "FISI-FAQ" IS AVAILABLE BY FTP; SEE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW ========================================================================= FIRST INTERNATIONAL SUMMER INSTITUTE IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE (FISI-CS) Center for Cognitive Science State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA JULY 5 - 29, 1994 REGISTRATION IS STILL OPEN! BUT HURRY--BECAUSE SOME COURSES ARE FILLING UP QUICKLY. IF YOU HAVE NOT RECEIVED YOUR REGISTRANT'S PACKET, PLEASE CONTACT: Ms. Mable Sumpter, Office of Conferences and Special Events, telephone: 716-645-2018; fax: 716-645-3869 or Craig Kopris, v119n57h(a)ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu REGISTRATION will take place on Tuesday, July 5, in the Lobby of the Center for Tomorrow, University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus, from 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Phone: 716-645-2018 There will be an opening reception on Tuesday, July 5, 7:30 p.m. CLASSES begin Wednesday, July 6, and end Friday, July 24. WORKSHOPS take place on July 9-10, 15-17, 23-24, and 25-29. The last FISI event is on Friday evening, July 29. Full registration includes admission to the courses for which you have registered, all workshops, the plenary speaker series, and all evening sessions. FOR INFORMATION ON: CONTACT: Sharing a ride to FISI: Michael Behun v051l5cn(a)ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu Housing Problems: Dawn Phillips dcp(a)acsu.buffalo.edu, 716-645-3794 If you are arriving before 5 July, please contact Dawn Phillips as soon as possible! Travel Problems: Murray Travel Agency, 716-636-1414, 800-289-2835 *OR* Dawn Phillips, above The University does not provide child care, but we will provide lists of baby sitters and local child-care programs; contact: Lynne Hewitt hewitt(a)acsu.buffalo.edu All other questions to: Jocey Botimer jbotimer(a)acsu.buffalo.edu 716-645-2463 For emergency questions upon arrival or on weekends, go to the FISI Central Office, 250 Student Union. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION including printed registration forms, please contact: FISI-CS Office of Conferences and Special Events Room 120, Center for Tomorrow University at Buffalo Buffalo, NY 14260-1602 USA Telephone: (716) 645-2018 Fax: (716) 645-3869 E-Mail: cogsci94(a)ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu Those interested in exhibiting books, software, and related products and technologies, please contact Dr. Valerie Shalin, Institute Exhibits Manager, Department of Industrial Engineering, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA; valerie(a)eng.buffalo.edu REVISED LIST OF VISITING FACULTY Roberto Casati Universite de Neuchatel, Switzerland Eve V. Clark Stanford University Herbert H. Clark Stanford University Nina Dronkers VAMC, Martinez, CA, & University of California, Davis Alison Gopnik University of California, Berkeley Scott M. Freundschuh Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada Brian Funt Simon Fraser University, Canada Annette Herskovits Wellesley College Lynne E. Hewitt Pennsylvania State University Graeme Hirst University of Toronto, Canada Frank Keil Cornell University Janet Dixon Keller University of Illinois Joao P. Martins Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal Steve Palmer University of California, Berkeley Naomi Quinn Duke University David E. Rumelhart Stanford University Paul Smolensky University of Colorado, Boulder Claudia Strauss Duke University Michael Swain University of Chicago Michael Tarr Yale University Michael Tomasello Emory University David Wilkins Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Eran Zaidel University of California, Los Angeles PLENARY SPEAKER SERIES 6 July: Eleanor Rosch University of California, Berkeley 7 July: Susan B. Udin SUNY Buffalo 8 July: Leonard Talmy SUNY Buffalo 11 July: Michael Silverstein University of Chicago 12 July: Dedre Gentner Northwestern University 13 July: John Searle University of California, Berkeley 14 July: Lila Gleitman University of Pennsylvania 15 July: Brian Cantwell Smith Xerox PARC 18 July: Eve V. Clark Stanford University 19 July: Thomas G. Bever University of Rochester 20 July: Stephen M. Kosslyn Harvard University 21 July: David L. Waltz NEC Research Institute and Brandeis 22 July: Janet Dean Fodor CUNY Graduate Center 25 July: Jerry Fodor Rutgers Univ. & CUNY Grad. Ctr. 26 July: Gilles Fauconnier Univ. of California, San Diego 27 July: Donald A. Norman Apple Computer 28 July: Edwin Hutchins Univ. of California, San Diego 29 July: Ray Jackendoff Brandeis University WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS INCLUDE: Nina Davidovna Arutionova Institute of Linguistics, Moscow Mihai Barbuceanu University of Toronto, Canada Steven Bayne University of Connecticut, USA Ellen Bialystok York University, Canada Louise Cornelis University of Utrecht, Netherlands Emanuela Cresti University of Firenze, Italy Jim Cummins Ontario Institute for Studies in Education Martin Daly McMaster University, Canada Eve Danziger Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Annick De Houwer University of Antwerp, Belgium Max J. Egenhofer University of Maine, USA Carola Eschenbach University of Hamburg, Germany Anna Maria Escobar University of Illinois, USA Elisabetta Fava University of Padova, Italy Jerome A. Feldman International Computer Science Institute, USA Bruce Fraser Boston University and MIT, USA Christian Freksa University of Hamburg, Germany Natalya Fridman Northeastern University, USA Aldo Gangemi CNR, Rome, Italy Fred Genesee McGill University, Canada Tom Givon University of Oregon, USA Nicola Guarino LADSEB-CNR, Padova, Italy Christopher Habel University of Hamburg, Germany Michael Harrington Carnegie Mellon University, USA Marc Hauser Harvard University, USA Monica Heller Ontario Institute for Studies in Education Annette Herskovits Wellesley College, USA Geoffrey Hinton University of Toronto, Canada Kyoko Inoue Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Katharzyna Jaszczolt University of Brighton, UK Thomas Jokerst University of Hamburg, Germany Sotaro Kita Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Susumu Kubo Matsuyama University, Japan George Lakoff University of California, Berkeley, USA Ik-Hawan Lee Yonsey University, South Korea Alessandro Lenci University of California, San Diego, USA Stephen Levinson Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics James McClelland Carnegie Mellon University, USA Massimo Moneglia University of Firenze, Italy Brigitte Nerlich University of Nottingham, UK Maria Novella Catarsi CNR, Pisa, Italy Luca Pazzi University of Modena, Italy Eric Pederson Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Jean Petitot CREA, Paris, France Steven Pinker Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Terry Regier University of Chicago, USA Jacqueline Schachter University of Oregon, USA Eta Schneiderman University of Ottawa, Canada John Schumann University of California, Los Angeles, USA Geoffrey Simmons University of Hamburg, Germany Paul Smolensky University of Colorado, Boulder V. Theodossopoulou-Papalois University of Minnesota, USA Peter Todd Rowland Institute for Science, Cambridge, USA Russel Tomlin University of Oregon, USA Barbara Tversky Stanford University, USA Mike Uschold University of Edinburgh, UK Achille Varzi IRST, Trento, Italy Mari Vasarainen University of Minnesota, USA Graham White Int'l. Academy of Philosophy, Liechtenstein Margo Wilson McMaster University, Canada Wlodek Zadrozny IBM/T. J. Watson Research Center, USA UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO SUMMER FACULTY, SPEAKERS, AND WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS Matthew Dryer Linguistics Judith F. Duchan Communicative Disorders and Sciences Patricia Fox Linguistics LouAnn Gerken Psychology Peter Hare Philosophy Jeri Jaeger Linguistics Peter Jusczyk Psychology John Kearns Philosophy K. Nicholas Leibovic Biophysical Sciences Alan H. Lockwood Neurology and Nuclear Medicine Paul A. Luce Psychology David Mark Geography Madeleine Mathiot Linguistics Donald Pollock Anthropology William J. Rapaport Computer Science James R. Sawusch Psychology Erwin Segal Psychology Valerie Shalin Industrial Engineering Stuart C. Shapiro Computer Science David Shucard Neurology, Pediatrics, and Psychology Barry Smith Philosophy J. David Smith Psychology Leonard Talmy Linguistics Susan B. Udin Physiology Robert Van Valin Linguistics Wolfgang Wolck Linguistics Lynne Yang Learning and Instruction Wojciech Zelaniec Philosophy David Zubin Linguistics COURSES Course descriptions are available in postscript, ascii, and latex.dvi formats by "anonymous ftp" from: ftp.cs.buffalo.edu in /users/rapaport or by email from: aec(a)cs.buffalo.edu For instructions on how to ftp, see the end of this brochure. Classes begin Wednesday, July 6. WORKSHOPS 7/9-10 TOPOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE 7/15-17 SPEECH ACTS AND LINGUISTIC RESEARCH 7/23-24 COGNITIVE AND ONTOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING 7/25-26 CONNECTIONISM 7/25 DEIXIS IN NARRATIVE 7/26 ONTOLOGY OF SPACE (day 1) 7/27 APPLIED COGNITIVE SCIENCE: COGNITIVE SCIENCE IN THE WORKPLACE ONTOLOGY OF SPACE (day 2) 7/28-29 THE SNePS KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING SYSTEM 7/28 EVOLUTION OF COGNITION 7/29 COGNITION & BILINGUALISM EVENING SESSIONS Tuesday, July 26, 9-11 P.M. PANEL: TOWARDS AN EMBODIED AND UNIFIED COGNITIVE SCIENCE Jerome A. Feldman, Donald Norman, Thomas Bever, George Lakoff Wednesday, July 27, 9-11 P.M. TUTORIAL: THE ROLE OF METAPHOR SYSTEMS IN EMBODIED COGNITIVE SCIENCE George Lakoff INSTRUCTIONS FOR FTP ACCESS TO THE FISI-CS HANDBOOK: To ftp the full brochure (with application forms) or the FISI-CS handbook with course and workshop descriptions, or the fisi-faq (frequently-asked questions) do the following (where % is your prompt): %ftp ftp.cs.buffalo.edu When you are asked for your name, type "anonymous" When you are asked for your password, type your email address When you get the "ftp>" prompt, type: cd users/rapaport At the next "ftp>" prompt, type either: get fisi-brochure [for a copy of the full brochure] or get fisi-handbook.ps [for the postscript version of the handbook] or get fisi-handbook.dvi [for the .dvi version of the handbook] or get fisi-handbook.tex [for the LaTeX version of the handbook] or get fisi-handbook.ascii [for the plain text (ASCII) version] or get fisi-faq [Frequently Asked Questions] At the next "ftp>" prompt, type quit ** PLEASE NOTE THAT THESE DOCUMENTS ARE UPDATED ON A WEEKLY BASIS ** For further assistance, send email to: aec(a)cs.buffalo.edu ************* END OF BROCHURE *************