There are two lectures per week. These are
- ATCS lecture, Tuesday 12.30-13.20 in C133
- Professor Margaret Boden's Open Lecture, Tuesday (but
missing week 6 and 10) 11.30-12.20 in C133.
The introductory meeting/first lecture for the course will
take place on Tuesday 12.30, week 1 in C133.
Attendance at the ATCS lecture is compulsory. Attendance at Prof.
Boden's open lecture is highly recommended but may not be possible
in all cases.
Lecture topics
The topics for the ATCS lectures are below.
- Week 1 (lec01) Introduction to Cognitive Science
- Week 2 (lec02) Mental Representation
- Week 3 (lec03) Approaches to Vision
- Week 4 (lec04) Seeing
- Week 5 (lec05) Learning and Memory
- Week 6 (lec06) Language
- Week 7 (lec07) Conversation
- Week 8 (lec08) Imagery
- Week 9 (lec09) Consciousness
The topics for Professor Boden's open lectures are as follows.
- Week 2, Man as Machine: Origins of the Idea
- Week 3, Are Minds Machines Too?
- Week 4, The Rise of Computational Psychology
- Week 5, The Birth of Connectionism
- Week 7, When GOFAI was NEWFAI
- Week 8, A-Life in Embryo
- Week 9, Philosophies of Mind and Machine