On the 27th of May, 1998 The Board of Regents gave their final approval
for a Ph.D. program in Cognitive Science, as well as for the formation
of a Cognitive Science Institute.
For those interested in the original approved document, the links below
will take you to relevant sections of the final version of the Proposal
(dated February 6, 1997) submitted to the Board, and approved by the Site
Team.
Claude
Cech, Department of Psychology
Sherri Condon, Department of English
Subrata Dasgupta, Center for Advanced Computer Studies
Steve Giambrone, Department of Philosophy
Tony Maida, Center for Advanced Computer Studies
Bob McFatter, Department of Psychology
Daniel Povinelli, New Iberia Research Center
In addition, many, many people on USL's campus contributed to the drafting of this document. Particular thanks go to Val MacGyvers and Cheryl Lynch in Psychology, Shalini Arehole and Lloyd Augustine in Communicative Disorders, and Rasiah Loganantharaj and Bill Edwards at the Center for Advanced Computer Studies. Without the help and support of many people across many Departments (Eric Saidel and Ish Berkeley in Philosophy; Bob Sidman in Mathematics; Jack Damico and John Oller in Communicative Disorders; Henry Chu and Magdy Bayoumi at CACS; Bill Greer and Tim Eddy at NIRC, to name a few), and without the support of a number of friends and colleagues from other universities and students and administrators at USL, this proposal would not have been possible. To paraphrase Doug Adams, the trick to flying consists in learning how to throw yourself at the ground, and miss: It's an easy trick when there are friends there to catch you...