Colloquium Series

All Colloquia take place on Friday at 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm (unless otherwise noted) in Room D 428 (ICS) on the fourth floor of the Muenzinger Psychology building.

• August | September | October | November | December
• Other Fall Events Planned but not Scheduled

August

August 20, 2007 @ 3:00
-- Kate Cain
"Poor comprehenders' inference making difficulties: causes and consequences" (View Abstract)
Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, Fylde College, Lancaster University

August 24, 2007 @ 12:00
-- Danielle S. McNamara
"Scaffolding Coherence in Mind of the Reader" (View Abstract)
Associate Professor, Psychology/Institute for Intelligent Systems (IIS), University of Memphis

September

September 7, 2007 (SLC)
-- Margaret Burnett
"Gender HCI and End-User Programming: What About the Software?" (View Abstract)
Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University

September 14, 2007
-- ICS Membership and Fellows Meeting

September 28, 2007
-- Nianwen (Bert) Xue
Research Professor, Institute of Cognitive Science - Palmer Lab

October

October 5, 2007
-- Ben Shneiderman
Professor of Computer Science, Founding Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, University of Maryland
"Creativity Support Tools: Accelerating Discovery & Innovation" (View Abstract)

October 12, 2007
-- Ken Forbus
Professor of Computer Science and Education at Northwestern
"Steps towards human-level AI" (View Abstract)

October 26, 2007 (SLC)
-- SLC Student Presentations
Johanna Blumenthal, Chandra Brodje, and Claudia Folksa will be
discussing the focus of their summer research funded by the Science
of Learning Center Grant.
Link to Titles and Abstracts

November

November 2, 2007
-- Aravind Joshi
Henry K. Salvatore Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science at the University of Pennsylvania
"Towards Discourse Meaning: Complexity Of Dependencies At The Discourse Level And At The Sentence Level" (View Abstract)

November 9, 2007
-- Dr. Paul M. Churchland
Valtz Chair of Philosophy University of California, San Diego, CA

November 23, 2007
-Thanksgiving Holiday

November 30, 2007 (SLC)
--Michael H. Goldstein
Assistant Professor & Director, Eleanor J. Gibson Laboratory of Developmental Psychology, Cornell University
"Social Responses to Babbling catalyze Speech Development and Word Learning" (View Abstract)

December

December 7, 2007
-- Rebecca Scarborough
Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of Colorado

December 16, 2007
-- ICS Membership Holiday Gathering
Invitations will be sent out, contact office for more info