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.
The lab is in the middle of a growth spurt, so please excuse any inconsistencies on this website as we are updating projects and information.
LAB NEWS
Updated:11/20/09
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!
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! The paper is currently under review.
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
We will be recruiting undergraduate research assistants for next semester. Click here to see the flyer.
