Symbolic Systems Forum presents...

THE BUNDLING HYPOTHESIS: HOW PERCEPTION AND CULTURE GIVE RISE TO ABSTRACT MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS IN INDIVIDUALS
Professor Daniel L. Schwartz, Graduate School of Education

Monday, March 4, 2013, 12:15-1:05 pm
Building 460, Room 126

ABSTRACT: The “bundling hypothesis” describes the development of abstract mathematical concepts ...

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Herbert H. Clark (Albert Ray Lang Professor of Psychology and Professor, by courtesy, of Linguistics), a member of SSP's Founding Committee, has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. 

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Symbolic Systems Forum presents...

"Identity Explained Away"
Alexis Burgess
Philosophy Department

Monday, April 8, 2013
12:15-1:05 pm
Margaret Jacks Hall, Greenberg Seminar Room (460-126)
map link: http://campus-map.stanford.edu/?id=01-460&lat=37.4285008259&lng=-122.170359989&zoom=17&srch=460

ABSTRACT:
Why do we have the ...

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Students: Advising Fellow Julie Fortuna and four Symbolic Systems alumni invite you for dinner this Friday (Nov 9) at 5pm in 460-126 to join an informal discussion of the career paths these alums have taken after graduation.

Michael Bernstein ('06) is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford, starting ...

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Symbolic Systems Forum presents...

"Aspects of the Development of Commonsense Perception"
Jeff Shrager
Symbolic Systems Program

Monday, April 22nd, 2013
12:15-1:05 pm
Margaret Jacks Hall, Greenberg Seminar Room (460-126)
map link: http://campus-map.stanford.edu/?id=01-460&lat=37.4285008259&lng=-122.170359989&zoom=17&srch=460

ABSTRACT ...

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Symbolic Systems Forum presents...

"Crowd-Powered Systems"
Michael Bernstein
Computer Science Department

Monday, January 14, 2013
12:15-1:05 pm
Margaret Jacks Hall, Greenberg Seminar Room (460-126)
map link: http://campus-map.stanford.edu/?id=01-460&lat=37.4285008259&lng=-122.170359989&zoom=17&srch=460

ABSTRACT:
Crowd-powered systems combine computation with ...

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Stanford professors Charles E. Eesley and William F. Miller have released a report on an innovation survey of Stanford alumni/ae, which mentions several Symbolic Systems Program alums and affiliated faculty. For-profit and nonprofit corporations founded by SSP alums that are mentioned in the report include:

• Instagram (cofounded by Mike ...

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Symbolic Systems Forum
presents
Brain Games (2011, National Geographic)
A Series of Video Screenings

Monday, Oct. 22, 2012
Monday, Nov. 5, 2012
Monday, Nov. 26, 2012
12:15-1:05 pm
Building 460, Room 126
map link: http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=01-460

Join us for screenings of the ...

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Several Symbolic Systems Program-affiliated faculty from the Computer Science Department were noted in this past summer's annual CS Department Newsletter as having won awards. Mehran Sahami (Associate Professor, Teaching) was named both as one of Princeton Review's Best 300 Professors and as the Robert and Ruth Halperin University ...

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Joan W. Bresnan (Sadie Dernham Patek Professor of Linguistics, Emerita), James G. Greeno (The Margaret Jacks Professor of Education, Emeritus), and Ellen M. Markman (The Lewis M. Terman Professor of Psychology) were all elected this summer as Fellows of the Cognitive Science Society.

SSP-affiliated Fellows of the Cognitive Science Society ...

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