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From: hestenes@sdics.UUCP (Eric Hestenes)
Newsgroups: net.cog-eng
Subject: Re: PhD programs in Cognitive Science?
Message-ID: <247@sdics.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 30-Sep-86 17:06:21 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 30 17:06:21 1986
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References: <15726@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: U.C. San Diego, Institute for Cognitive Science
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Summary: few and far between

In article <15726@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, rosen@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Rob Rosen) writes:
> 
> 	Can anyone give me some pointers to programs in the relatively
> new area of Cognitive Science?  I was disappointed to find out that my
> current institution, although having a Cognitive Science Consortium,
> does not have a PhD program in this field (word has it that a program
> will exist in several years though).
> 
> 	%%Rob

While many schools have undergraduate programs in Cognitive Science,
very few have graduate programs. UCSD, MIT, Brown, and ( i believe) Stanford 
have Cognitive Science PHd programs. I believe that several UC schools
( Irvine, UCLA, Cal ) are setting up Phd programs.  You should look at 
non-cognitive science departments that incorporate cognitive science. 
Many schools have programs structured this way. For example, Carnegie Mellon, 
Yale, UCLA and many others have people doing 'Cognitive Science' in the 
psychology and computer science departments. At other schools they
do work in the philosophy or neuroscience departments. 

Perhaps the best advice of all is to talk to members of specific departments
and to ask them if they are doing work that is interesting to you. Since
one of them will become your advisor eventually, you should get to know
their work and interests before you reach the school. You may also find
that many departments have subgroups that emphasize cognitive science,
or other areas that interest you in particular.

eric hestenes
hestenes@nprdc