
The Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition
People at the CRCC

Our Leader
Douglas Hofstadter is the founder of the CRCC and FARG and has been the director of the center for over twenty five years.
Special Mention
Helga Keller was our beloved administrator for over twenty years. She passed away in early 2011, but her spirit remains with all of FARGs members.
Students
Students in the research group typically come from the Cognitive Science Program, the Computer Science Department and, occasionally, the Philosophy Department too.
Current Students
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Past PhD Students (With Thesis Titles)
- Don Byrd -- Music Notation by Computer
- Dave Chalmers -- Toward a Theory of Consciousness
- Gray A. Clossman -- A Model of Categorization and Learning in a Connectionist Broadcast System
- Hamid Ekbia -- AI Dreams and Discourse: Science and Engineering in Tension
- Harry Foundalis -- Phaeaco: A Cognitive Architecture Inspired by Bongard's Problems
- Bob French -- Tabletop: An emergent, stochastic model of analogy-making
- Francisco Lara-Dammer -- Modeling Human Discoverativity in Geometry
- Abhijit Mahabal -- SeqSee: A Concept-centered Architecture for Sequence Perception
- Jim Marshall -- Metacat: A Self-Watching Cognitive Architecture for Analogy-making and High level Perception
- Gary McGraw -- Letter Spirit (Part One): Emergent High-level Perception of Letters Using Fluid Concepts
- Marsha Meredith -- Seek-Whence: A Model of Pattern Perception
- Eric Nichols -- Musicat: A Computer Model of Musical Listening and Analogy-Making
- Melanie Mitchell -- Copycat: A Computer Model of High-Level Perception and Conceptual Slippage in Analogy-making
- John Rehling -- Letter Spirit (Part Two): Modeling Creativity in a Visual Domain
- Wang Pei (Pei Wang) -- Non-Axiomatic Reasoning System: Exploring the Essence of Intelligence
Affiliates
- David Moser
- Steve Larson -- music, Seek Well
- David Leake
- Alexandre Linhares -- Bongard problems; application of Copycat architecture to chess
- Peter Suber