News & Announcements

Two Recent PhDs

Karen Clothier and Emory Davis finished their PhD requirements this fall! Congrats! Their degrees will be conferred in May 2020. They share in common that they were co-advised by Drs. Barbara Landau and Kyle Rawlins. Where will they go next? [Read more]

A Blog by Dr. Paul Smolensky

A Blog by Dr. Paul Smolensky
Check out Dr. Paul Smolensky's latest Microsoft Research Blog post entitled "Next-generation architectures bridge gap between neural and symbolic representations with neural symbols." He describes work presented at the recent Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2019 meeting.

Eight Letters: Prolific Puzzlemaker

Eight Letters: Prolific Puzzlemaker
Tom McCoy. Tom - a Cognitive Science PhD student - started mapping crosswords on graph paper during his senior year in high school. Now a third-year graduate student in cognitive science at Johns Hopkins, McCoy has had 33 puzzles published in The New York Times and is the mastermind behind the university's end-of-year crossword.

CogSci PURA Recipients, 2019-20

Cognitive Science majors Subin Han '21, Peter Zhu '21, and Coleman Haley '20 received Provost’s Undergraduate Research Awards. These $3000 fellowships will help fund their independent research projects in the coming year. Their projects will be presented at DREAMS on April 24, 2020 or DREAMS 2021 (date TBD) to the Hopkins community.

Spring 2020 Focal Area Courses

This list of focal area courses should help Cognitive Science majors and Linguistics minors make Spring 2020 course selections. Registration begins November 4th!