Welcome to the Cognitive Computing Lab (CCL) at Indiana University, Bloomington. The lab is directed by Dr. Michael Jones and focuses on computational and experimental studies of language and knowledge representation in humans and machines. We are generally interested in understanding the computational mechanisms used by the human brain to learn, represent, and use environmental information to structure knowledge, as well as how this knowledge degrades. Further, we study how knowledge of human cognitive systems can be used to enhance intelligent machine systems in practical tasks, and how information environments can be optimally structured for humans and machines to work together.
Interest in practical applications is generally directed to algorithms for intelligent search, knowledge abstraction from large textbases, automatic open-question answering, and various AI-based learning technologies.
The CCL is located on the top floor of the Hillcrest Psychology Research Center at 674 East Cottage Grove Avenue (just a few blocks from the Psychology and Informatics buildings). The lab is affiliated with the Cognitive Science Program, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, School of Informatics and Computing, and the Computational Linguistics Program at IU, and with Google Research.
The lab is well equipped with computational and eye-tracking technologies, and is particularly well suited to build and evaluate large-scale computational models of cognition due Indiana's supercomputing resources, most notably Big Red, Libra, and the Quarry cluster.
Our research is funded by the National Science Foundation, the Indiana CTSI, and by Google Research.
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LAB NEWS
Updated: 8/15/2011January/2012: Mike has been appointed the new Associate Editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
January/2012: Lab alumus Dr. Brian Riordan's work on modeling the spread of 'infectious ideas' is featured in Wired's Danger Room
July/2011: Congrats to Brendan Johns for winning the Marr Prize for Best Student paper from the Cognitive Science Society [pic]. Also, congrats to Greg Cox for winning the Higher-Level Cognition Modeling Prize [pic], and to incoming Melody Dye for winning the IES Developmental Modeling Prize. Great showing at the 2011 Cognitive Science Conference!
April/2011: Congrats to Mike who won a very prestigious NSF CAREER award to study models for integrating perceptual and linguistic information. The grant provides $453,674 in funding for the Semantic Pictionary Project and related computational modeling.
April/2011: Congrats to previous lab postdocs Vanessa Taler and Brian Riordan. Vanessa (now at University of Ottawa) just won the Quality of Life Young Investigator Award from the Alzheimer's Society of Canada, and Brian (now at Aptima Inc.) was part of the "Mixed Initiative Machine for Instructed Computing" group winning the best technical achivement award from Aptima.
April/10: Congrats to Greg Cox on winning an NSF Graduate Fellowship, and to Sean Matthews for honorable mention in ths very competitive competition. Great job guys!
March/10: Read the CCL story in "Mind Reader" the cognitive science newsletter.
Dec/09: The CCL wins $50k from Google Research as a seed grant to explore neural binding operations for integrating perceptual information into vector space models! IU Press Release here.
Nov/09: Congratulations to Brendan for winning the Castellan Award for Best Student Paper at the Society for Computers in Psychology Annual Conference in Boston. Great job! IU PBS Release.
May/09: Mike was invited to speak on the future of cognitive modeling at the NSF-sponsored Future of Cognitive Science Conference at UC Merced [PIC]
April/09: Congratulations
to Brendan Johns for winning a prestigious NSERC postgraduate research
scholarship for three years. Awesome job!
Feb/09: The CCL lab has been selected as one of only 12 funded proposals for the NIH Center for Biomedial/Translational Research competition.....Click here for the press release
Lab News Archive
We will be recruiting undergraduate research assistants for next semester. Click here to see the flyer.
