PhD Application List

I'm still sleepless, don't know why, watching another Bond film. So I decided to peg down, exactly, what schools are going to be in my FIRST round of PhD applications. As per the advice given to me by my friend Peter in philosophy, I'm not screwing around. I'm going to send out at least 15 applications, maybe more, next fall. Most application deadlines are December 15th, so I have between now and then to get them all done.

As you can see, I'm trying to stay in the US. After all, I have a cat, a car, a motorcycle, and a LOT of computers and stuff. I don't want to do an international move if I can avoid it. The only place I *may* be willing to do that for is Scotland.

Here is the list, in no particular order of preference. I'd be very happy to go to any of these places. Surely one of them will take me, I hope.

1. MIT - Computer Science, Cognitive Machines group
http://www.media.mit.edu/cogmac/

2. University of Colorado, Boulder - Computer Science, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience
http://ics.colorado.edu/grad/joint_phd.html

3. Johns Hopkins - Department of Cognitive Science, Robotics Research Lab
http://web.jhu.edu/cogsci/PhD_Program/goals.html
http://lcsr.jhu.edu/Education/Graduate

4. Cornell - Computer Science, Cognitive Science Minor
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Research/ai/index.htm
http://www.cogstud.cornell.edu/grad.php

5. Berkeley - Computer Science, Computational Cognition Lab, Robotics
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Research/Areas/AI/

6. Stanford - Computer Science, Robotics Lab
http://robotics.stanford.edu/

7. Carnegie Melon - Robotics, Neural Basis for Cognition
http://www.ri.cmu.edu/ri_static_content.html?menu_id=321 http://www.ri.cmu.edu/ri_static_content.html?menu_id=327

8. Edinburgh - Neuroinformatics and Computational Neuroscience
http://www.anc.ed.ac.uk/dtc/index.php

9. University of Texas @ Austin - Computer Science, Robotics Research Group
http://www.robotics.utexas.edu/rrg/

10. University of Southern California - Robotics PhD
http://www-robotics.usc.edu/?l=Education:index

11. University of Utah - Robotics PhD
http://robotics.eng.utah.edu/

12. University of Maryland - Computer Science PhD, AI focus areas
http://www.cs.umd.edu/Grad/catalog.shtml

13. Brown University - Computer Science, AI focus areas
http://www.cs.brown.edu/grad/phd/
http://robotics.cs.brown.edu/index.html

14. UMass Amherst - Computer Science, Robotics
http://www-robotics.cs.umass.edu/
http://www.cs.umass.edu/grads/overview

15. Vanderbilt - Center for Intelligent Systems
http://eecs.vanderbilt.edu/CIS/cisHome.shtml
http://eecs.vanderbilt.edu/programs#grad

16. Georgia Tech - Robotics PhD Program
http://www.robotics.gatech.edu/index.php/academics/phd-program.html