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this certainly sounds like astroturf. At best it is braging about how cool the whole "apple culture" is. I really don't see how this is anything other than "look I-pod users are cool!". it's not anything technical about the ipod, more about how the owners are part of a "comunity". wich sounds ludacris to me.
I've notticed pretty much everything mentioned here about MIT is from the media lab. Even on campus the media lab isn't exactly taken very seriously. So please, if you are going to make fun of this story, direct it toward the media lab, not MIT in general.
Thank you:)
""My experience with cogsci is that it's really about understanding thought, not about making machines. I think it really depends on where you are. If you're at MIT, it's probably machines.""
ahem. not at all. usuing MIT as an example the dept of Brain and Cognitive Sciences is more concerned with human cognition. granted there are some poeple who are more in the AI area, but many are not. (i was one of them)
most schools who have an offical cognitive science dept or program mostly have cogntiive psychologist or cognitive neuroscienctist in it. (see UCSD, UC-Berkeley, MIT, Urochester)
The bottom line is that in my 5 or so years as a cognitive scientist i can tell you that there is a VERY wide range of type of reseachers to claim to be cognitive scientist. They all work on the same problem but from a different angle. The problem being intelligence/thought. be it looking at human thought, or trying to create something like it.
Cognitive scientist come from areas such as neuroscience, AI, Linguistics, psychology, ect.
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this certainly sounds like astroturf. At best it is braging about how cool the whole "apple culture" is. I really don't see how this is anything other than "look I-pod users are cool!". it's not anything technical about the ipod, more about how the owners are part of a "comunity". wich sounds ludacris to me.
I've notticed pretty much everything mentioned here about MIT is from the media lab. Even on campus the media lab isn't exactly taken very seriously. So please, if you are going to make fun of this story, direct it toward the media lab, not MIT in general. Thank you :)
""My experience with cogsci is that it's really about understanding thought, not about making machines. I think it really depends on where you are. If you're at MIT, it's probably machines."" ahem. not at all. usuing MIT as an example the dept of Brain and Cognitive Sciences is more concerned with human cognition. granted there are some poeple who are more in the AI area, but many are not. (i was one of them) most schools who have an offical cognitive science dept or program mostly have cogntiive psychologist or cognitive neuroscienctist in it. (see UCSD, UC-Berkeley, MIT, Urochester) The bottom line is that in my 5 or so years as a cognitive scientist i can tell you that there is a VERY wide range of type of reseachers to claim to be cognitive scientist. They all work on the same problem but from a different angle. The problem being intelligence/thought. be it looking at human thought, or trying to create something like it. Cognitive scientist come from areas such as neuroscience, AI, Linguistics, psychology, ect.