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	Professors Colin Allen and Katy Börner Win Grant to Explore 'Big Data' A team of researchers, including principal investigators Professors Colin Allen and Katy Börner, have won a grant to "demonstrate how large-scale data repositories with millions of books can change the nature of research for the humanities and social sciences. Their 'Digging by Debating' project combines the power of 'scientometrics' with the interpretative strategies of the humanities to tackle the particularly challenging issue of understanding the boundary between science and philosophy." Read more in the IU press release. Visiting Undergraduate Research Applications Available The IU Cognitive Science Program invites upper-level undergraduate students not enrolled at IU Bloomington and students who are graduating from colleges other than IU Bloomington to apply to the Cognitive Science Visiting Undergraduate Program. Professor Katy Börner Receives Fellow Distinction from AAAS Victor H. Yngve Professor of Information Science, School of Library and Information Science, Professor Katy Börner, has been awarded the distinction of Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science "[f]or pioneering work on network science infrastructure development, the scientific analysis, modeling, and visualization of science itself, and curatorship of the international 'Places & Spaces: Mapping Science' exhibit." See the IU news release. Congratulations Professor Börner! Ph.D. Program Application for Fall 2012 The Cognitive Science Program is currently accepting applications for the Ph.D. program for 2012 fall matriculation. Information about the application procedure is available at Admission to the Cognitive Science Ph.D. Program. Deadline for international applicants is 12/01/11. Deadline for domestic applications is 01/15/12. Deadline to apply for the IGERT Traineeship is 12/31/2011. Professor Katy Börner Wins ASIS&T Best Information Science Book Award Congratulations to Professor Katy Börner, winner of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) best Information Science book published in 2010 for her work Atlas of Science: Visualizing What We Know (MIT). ... More More news and announcements


	Cognitive Scientists in the News Professor Colin Allen in the NY Times Opinionator "Many think the idea of ethically sensitive machines is a kind of techno-utopian joke. But we are already moving in that direction." Intrigued? Read Professor Colin Allen piece on "The Future of Moral Machines" in the NY Times Opinionator. Professors Bollen and Sporns in the News An article mentioning Professor Johan Bollen and an article mentioning Professor Olaf Sporns appear in the "The World in 2012", a special issue of The Economist. Alejandra Rossi's DogCam DogCam, a device designed by researchers including I.U. cognitive science graduate student Alejandra Rossi, is featured in the December 9th issue of Science magazine. Rossi plans to use DogCam to understand the visual dynamics of dog-human social interactions. Read more and see a picture here. Study: A rich club in the human brain Read the IU news release about Olaf Sporns' recent work on 'Rich Clubs' within the human brain. Professor Jerome Busemeyer's Work Featured in New Scientist A portion of Professor Jerome Busemeyer's work on quantum cognition was recently featured in the lead article of New Scientist: Buchanan, M. (2011). Your Quantum Minds. New Scientist, 3, 34-37. Professor Olaf Sporn on the show "Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman" Professor Olaf Sporn was featured on the show "Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman" that appears on the Discovery Channel. The show's aim was to address the question, "Can We Live Forever?" More Cognitive Scientists in the News

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The Indiana University Cognitive Science Program is home to the NSF IGERT doctoral training program in the dynamics of brain-body-environment systems in behavior and cognition. Trainees receive extensive support and funding for their doctoral studies at IU.

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Nicole Beckage is in the Ph.D. program in Cognitive Science at UC-Irvine ... More

Ravi Bhatt, Jim Brink, Stephen Hockema, Jun Luo: Aji

Tarun Gangwani writes that the IU cognitive science program let him discover ... More

Kelly Gordon graduated in 2010 and spent the last year in an accelerated ... More

Jaimie Murdock writes that since graduating in December 2010, he has accepted ... More

Brian Slattery writes that after he graduated in 2010, he started working on a Ph.D. in ... More

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	2/15/2012 Yong-Yeol Ahn Title: Finding hidden structure in complex networks
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