All of the information is in and the decision has been made: I will be going to Carnegie Mellon University to complete an MS in Logic and Computation. I am tremendously excited to attend—the degree offers an attractive brew of computer science and philosophy.
CMU has many attractions. The philosophy faculty is excellent and my fellow students appear to be quite interesting. Additionally, the college is home to many prestigious/controversial thinkers such as John Anderson (Cognitive Psychologist), James L. (Jay) McClelland (Psychologist of PDP fame), and Edward Fredkin (Adjunct CS professor, digital physics promoter).
And just look at these classes:
Computer Science: Machine Learning, Computation and Deduction, An Intensive Introduction to Computational Complexity Theory, Special Topics in Theory: Randomized Algorithms
Philosophy: Minds Machine and Knowledge, Logic & Computation, Probability and AI, Seminar on Causation, Philosophy of Science
Psychology: Graduate Core Course Cognitive Psychology, Development of Scientific Thinking, Cognitive Neuroscience, Perception, Evolutionary Psychology
Physics: Graduate Seminar in Quantum Computation and Information
Social and Decision Sciences: Rational Choice
And these centers:
Center for Automated Learning and Discovery
Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging
The Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
Center for Machine Translation
Computational Systems Biology Group
Splendid! Now to get ready for the damned cold…
And the sticky heat, get ready for that too.
Posted by: ticknart at April 25, 2004 09:20 AM*Neglecting dirty reading of the previous message*
Indeed, the weather will be all kinds of fun.
Posted by: John at April 25, 2004 12:16 PMHey good luck. Do you know of any schools on the west coast (or even anywhere in the United States) that offer such a similar graduate program?
Posted by: Schopenhauer at May 3, 2004 09:06 PMThanks Schopenhauer.
I can't say that I know of a program quite like CMU's Logic and Computation MS. I suppose the masters in symbolic systems at Stanford, and the Phd. in Logic and Philosophy of Science at Irvine come close, but they (to my knowledge), lack the computational aspects of CMU’s program. Are you thinking of going to graduate school soon?
Cheers.
Posted by: John at May 5, 2004 03:01 PM