ipratt@research2.COMputer-science.manchester.ac.UK (Ian Pratt) (08/03/88)
From: Ian Pratt <ipratt%research2.computer-science.manchester.ac.uk@NSS.Cs.Ucl.AC.UK> Date: Tue, 2 Aug 88 10:38 EDT To: AILIST@ai.ai.mit.edu Subject: Response to - Manchester Cognitive Science Course cc: mary%research2.computer-science.manchester.ac.uk@NSS.Cs.Ucl.AC.UK, rector%research2.computer-science.manchester.ac.uk@NSS.Cs.Ucl.AC.UK My apologies for the rather terse notice I originally sent out. Herewith a fuller advertisement. Manchester university offers a one year MSc programme in Cognitive Science. The first two terms consist of taught courses in the following areas: Artificial Intelligence (2 one-term courses) Topics in Cognitive Psychology Psycholinguistics Theoretical Linguistics (2 one-term courses) Computational Linguistics Psychology of Vision Computer Vision (1 one-term course + 1/2 term course on relevant math) Human-Computer Interaction The third term (and summer `vacation') is devoted to extended projects. These projects may be theoretical, experimental (e.g. in cognitive psychology) or programming projects; however, the hope is that students' projects will draw on several of the contributing disciplines. In addition, there is a series of seminars to discuss philosophical and foundational issues, to which staff and students contribute. The programme is heavily computational: students will be expected to master at least prolog and pascal, as well as other languages if needed for projects. There is also a considerable bias towards computer vision and computational linguistics. The programme should prove suitable to students with good honours degrees in psychology, philosophy, mathematics, natural science, computer science and linguistics. We expect that all students will arrive already possessing a reasonable facility in one or two of the taught subjects; the workload is set accordingly. (The backgrounds of next year's intake of 15 students are pretty evenly distributed over the above disciplines.) For details, contact: Dr. Ian Pratt, Department of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, United Kingdom.