From signals to structured communication

Outline

Organizers:
Shimon Edelman (se37@cornell.edu)
Claire Cardie (cardie@cs.cornell.edu)

Time: M 4:30-6:30 (NOTE CHANGE from 4:15 to 4:30)
Place: Uris Hall 260

Requirements for credit:

1. Weekly short essays on assigned topics
2. A 5000-word end of term paper

What's new

• NOTE: The last meeting of this seminar will be on Monday, 4/23. Dr. Rooth's lecture will be given at the spring symposium of the Cognitive Studies Program, From Signals to Structured Communication.
• 4/18: Dr. McConnell Ginet's essay theme is on the supplementary links page for week 13. The paper, by Angelika Kratzer, is in the Psych library in Uris Hall; read section 1, which is pp.337-347.
• 4/11: Dr. Cohn's essay theme is on the supplementary links page for week 12. The papers are in the Psych library in Uris Hall.
• 4/10: Dr. Bowers's essay theme is on the supplementary links page for week 11. The papers are in the Psych library in Uris Hall.
• 3/28: Dr. Halpern's material and essay theme are on the supplementary links page for week 10.
• 3/27: Dr. Cardie's material and essay theme are on the supplementary links page for week 9.
• 3/12: Dr. Finlay's material is in the Psych library.
• 3/1: Dr. Owren's material is in the Psych library.
• NOTE: the spring symposium of the Cognitive Studies Program, titled From Signals to Structured Communication, is on!
• 2/26: Dr. Lotem's essay theme is on the supplementary links page for week 6.
• 2/19: Dr. Bass's essay theme is on the supplementary links page for week 5.
• 2/12: Dr. Clark's essay theme is on the supplementary links page for week 4.
• 1/24: Published grading criteria.
• 1/24: Start time CHANGED from 4:15 to 4:30.
• 1/24: Added a couple of definitions of "communication" (see the supplementary links for week 1), courtesy of Erik Patel.

week 1	1/22	Shimon Edelman (Psychology): A view of communication
week 2	1/29	Jerrold Meinwald (Chemistry and Chemical Biology): Communication in butterfly courtship	[slides n/a]
week 3	2/5	Shimon Edelman (Psychology): Symbol grounding, representation and communication
week 4	2/12	Christopher Clark (Lab of Ornithology and NB&B): How Might Large Whales Perceive Their World?	[slides n/a]
week 5	2/19	Andrew Bass (NB&B): Fish Songs: Blending the Sexes from Neurons to Behavior	[slides n/a]
week 6	2/26	Arnon Lotem (E&EB): From signals to syntax: an evolutionary biologist's perspective	[slides n/a]
week 7	3/5	Michael Owren (Psych) The search for meaning in nonhuman primate vocalizations	[slides n/a]
week 8	3/12	Barbara Finlay (Psych) Cortical evolution and computational considerations	[slides n/a]
spring break	.. ..	....
week 9	3/26	Claire Cardie (CS) Recovering Meaning from Text
week 10	4/2	Joe Halpern (CS) Knowledge and common knowledge in a distributed environment
week 11	4/9	John Bowers (Linguistics) Minimal syntax	[slides n/a]
week 12	4/16	Abby Cohn (Linguistics) Phonology and phonetics: Cognitive and physical aspects of speech sounds	[slides n/a]
week 13	4/23	Sally McConnell Ginet (Linguistics) Indexicality and context in semantics: what `must' and `can' must and can mean	[slides n/a]
week 14	4/30	Mats Rooth (Linguistics) NOTE: Prof. Rooth will speak at the Cognitive Studies Symposium instead	.	.

Last modified on Wed Apr 18 15:41:03 2001