This site is about: (1) my professional self, (2) my research into cognition and (3) musings about the intersection of cognition and design.
Jason H. Wong
Basic cognitive research is a necessary component of successful user-centered design. Only through scientific thinking can we make technology intuitive and productive. My goal is to integrate basic research with useful applications.
DARPA: Cognitive Computing Collaboration
DARPA is funding an initiative to simulate the brain. Sounds like a been-there, done-that initiative, but with each generation of technology and the explosion of neuroscience research, now is a good time to try again.
Also, one of the faculty members on the grant is Dr. Chris Kello, who was a professor at George Mason University until this academic year. He’s now at the University of California, Merced. Congrats to him!
SAN JOSE, CA, Nov 20, 2008 — In an unprecedented undertaking, IBM Research and five leading universities are partnering to create computing systems that are expected to simulate and emulate the brain’s abilities for sensation, perception, action, interaction and cognition while rivaling its low power consumption and compact size.
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Blogroll
Cognitive Daily
- Can sign language really help babies get along better?
- Casual Fridays: Is it okay to use the "forbidden" restroom?
- Colors can tell us a lot about how we recognize shapes
- A fifteen-minute exercise may help overcome a lifetime of racial stereotyping
- Casual Fridays: Christmas procrastinators' edition
- What brain games do you like?
- New book on the psychology and engineering of traffic
- Casual Fridays: Who's tab-happy -- and who's not
- Make sure you get some sleep -- or at least some caffeine -- before that test
- Is it sexist to think men are angrier than women?
