Job: MSc in Cognitive Science, Edinburgh (fwd)

Csaba Pleh Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences 202 Junipero Serra Blvd Stanford, Ca. 94305 T.: (415)321-2052, Fax: ...1192 Home: (415)947-9641 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 16:52:42 +0100 From: Centre for Cognitive Science <info(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk> To: elsnet-list(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk Subject: Job: MSc in Cognitive Science, Edinburgh Resent-Date: Fri, 9 May 97 23:42:59 +100 Resent-From: pleh(a)izabell.elte.hu Resent-To: csaba.pleh(a)casbs.Stanford.EDU POSTGRADUATE STUDY IN THE CENTRE FOR COGNITIVE SCIENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH Cognitive Psychology Neural Computation Computational Linguistics Formal Logic Data Intensive Linguistics Logic Programming Theoretical Linguistics & Knowledge Representation The Centre for Cognitive Science (CCS) offers a programme of postgraduate study in cognitive science, centred on language and cognition. The programme leads to the degrees of MSc in Cognitive Science and Natural Language, MPhil or PhD. Some MSc places are still available for the year starting October 1997. CCS is committed to research and postgraduate teaching in cognitive science at international level. The work of the Centre is at the heart of Edinburgh's view of *informatics* -- the study of the structure, behaviour, and design of computational systems, both natural and artificial. CCS has a well-developed system of collaboration with departments within Informatics (Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science) and beyond (Linguistics, Philosophy, Psychology). The Centre's lecturers and research fellows work with over 60 postgraduates in a rich and varied intellectual and social environment. Regular interdisciplinary research workshops, in which students actively participate, focus on current problems in cognitive science. Visiting researchers contribute to a lively seminar series. Research projects, many of them collaborative with other European centres of excellence, have been funded by the UK research councils ESRC, EPSRC and MRC as well as by the European Union LRE and ESPRIT programmes in such areas as natural language understanding and computational neuroscience. Teaching staff: [with associated departments] Ewan Klein Head of Department linguistic theory, phonology Chris Brew [HCRC] corpora, data intensive linguistics, language technology Jo Calder [HCRC] grammar formalisms, computational linguistics Matthew Crocker [ESRC Fellow] statistical language processing, computational psycholinguistics Mark Ellison computational phonology and morphology, natural computation Bruce Graham computational neuroscience, neural networks Alexander Holt natural language semantics, computational linguistics Alex Lascarides [HCRC] lexical and discourse processing, semantics, pragmatics Paul Schweizer PhD Organiser philosophical logic, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language Richard Shillcock MSc Course Organiser psycholinguistics, cognitive modelling, cognitive neuropsychology Keith Stenning [HCRC] human memory, inference, connectionism Associates and Fellows: Sheila Glasbey EPSRC Fellow M. Louise Kelly [Linguistics] Robert Ladd [Linguistics] John Lee [HCRC] Chris Mellish [Artificial Intelligence] Jon Oberlander [HCRC] Massimo Poesio EPSRC Fellow David Willshaw [MRC] Human Communication Research Centre: The HCRC is a centre of excellence in the interdisciplinary study of cognition and computation in human communication, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (UK). Drawing together researchers from Edinburgh, Glasgow and Durham, HCRC focuses on the psychological aspects of real language processing. HCRC shares a site with CCS, and the two contribute towards a joint research environment. Studying in Edinburgh: Edinburgh contains the largest concentration of expertise in Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing in Europe. Students have access to that expertise, to Edinburgh's large copyright libraries, and within Cognitive Science, to a substantial offprint library. The department possesses extensive computing facilities based on a network of Sun workstations and Apple Macintoshes; access to Edinburgh's concurrent supercomputer and other central computing services is easily arranged. Requirements: Applicants typically have a first degree in one of the participating areas or an appropriate joint honours degree. Funding: UK and EU students following the MSc and PhD courses are eligible to apply for studentships. CCS will advise all students concerning funding possibilities. CCS attracts studentships from a variety of UK and non-UK funding bodies. Non-UK applicants with sufficient background may enroll as non-graduating students. If you would like more information about the Postgraduate Programme in Cognitive Science at the University of Edinburgh, please contact: Admissions Centre for Cognitive Science University of Edinburgh 2 Buccleuch Place Edinburgh EH8 9LW UK Telephone: +44 131 650 4667 Fax: +44 131 650 6626 Email: info(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk WWW: http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/