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Here are some links to to resources that are relevant to my course on [http://www.vernon.eu/ACS.htm Artificial Cognitive Systems] on my main website.  I keep this material here on the wiki to make sure it is current and up-to-date.

== Videos ==

*[http://www.vernon.eu/euCognition_Elizabeth_Spelke.mp4 Elizabeth Spelke's talk on ''Core Knowledge of Number and Geometry''] at [http://www.vernon.eu/euCognition/inaugural.htm the inaugural meeting] of [http://www.eucognition.org euCognition] in 2006<BR>
*[http://www.kepachproduction.com/project/the-age-of-robots/ Trailer for The Age of Robots from Massimo Brega]

== Surveys ==

*[http://bicasociety.org/cogarch/architectures.htm Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures Society (BICA) comparison of 25 cognitive architectures]
*[http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/cogarch0/ University of Michigan survey of (mostly cognitivist) cognitive architectures]
*[http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/00-02.html#89 A Framework for Comparing Agent Architectures]
*[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925231210003498 A world survey of artificial brain projects, Part II: Biologically inspired cognitive architectures]
*[http://ac.els-cdn.com/S2212683X12000084/1-s2.0-S2212683X12000084-main.pdf?_tid=3b7ec094-4cb2-11e6-9abc-00000aacb360&acdnat=1468824086_a604336cea908296e575727de743fab6 Design principles for biologically inspired
cognitive robotics]

== Educational Resources ==

*[http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/brain-and-cognitive-sciences/9-66j-computational-cognitive-science-fall-2004/lecture-notes/ MIT Open Courseware: Computational Cognitive Science]
*[http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/cogsys/index.html Cognitive Systems Outreach] coordinated by Joanna Bryson, University of Bath, UK.

== Definitions of Cognition ==

*[http://www.vernon.eu/euCognition/definitions.htm Over 40 Definitions of Cognition] (it has proved difficult to define cognition and some argue that it isn't worth trying).  
*[http://www.vernon.eu/publications/14_Vernon_Cognitive_System.pdf A definition of a cognitive system] from the [http://www.springer.com/computer/image+processing/book/978-0-387-30771-8 Springer Reference Guide to Computer Vision].

== White Papers ==

*[http://www.vernon.eu/euCognition/asm-whitepaper-final-060804.pdf Action selection for Intelligent Systems] by Cyril Brom, Charles University, Prague, and Joanna Bryson, University of Bath, UK.

== Tutorials and Resources == 
 
*[http://www.eucognition.org/index.php?page=tutorial-on-embodiment Tutorial on Embodiment]: a wide-ranging summary of the main aspects of this discipline, from cognitivist AI right through to embodied emergent cognition, by  Matej Hoffmann, Dorit Assaf, and Rolf Pfeifer at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Department of Informatics, University of Zurich
*[http://www.embodiment.org.uk/bibliog.htm Books and articles related to embodiment]
*[http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/575/situatedcog.html Situated / Embedded / Extended Cognition Resources]: material provided by William Rapaport, University at Buffalo - State University of New York, for a course on cognitive science.
*[http://www.enolagaia.com/UMUArchive/Tutorial.html Tutorial on Autpoiesis, Autonomy, and Enactive Cognitive Science] by Randall Whittaker
*[http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/?post_type=publications&p=14460 Teaching Material for the ACT-R Cognitive Architecture] by William G. Kennedy

== Software ==

*[http://www.openbecca.org/ BECCA (Brain-Emulating Cognition and Control Architecture)] An Open-source Artificial General Intelligence Platform
*[https://www.tensorflow.org/ TensorFlow] an Open Source Software Library for Machine Intelligence

== Publications ==

*[http://cis.ieee.org/publications/131-ieee-transactions-on-cognitive-and-developmental-systems IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems]
*[http://www.journals.elsevier.com/cognitive-systems-research Cognitive Systems Research]
*[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/2212683X Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures]
*[http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/ Constructivist Foundations]
*[https://grey.colorado.edu/CompCogNeuro/index.php/CCNBook/Main Computational Cognitive Neuroscience]

== Research Networks and Societies ==

*[http://www.ieee-coro.org/ TC-CORO: IEEE Technical Committee on Cognitive Robotics]
*[http://www.vernon.eu/euCognition/index.htm euCognition: European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems].  This network was the first in a series of three networks, culminating in EUCog below.
*[http://www.eucognition.org EUCog: European Society for Cognitive Systems]
*[http://bicasociety.org BICA: Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures Society]
*[http://www.esscs.org/index.php ESSCS: European Society for the Study of Cognitive Systems]

== Degrees in Cognitive Systems ==

The following is a sample of the Master-level degrees that are available in cognitive systems.  If you know of other degree programs that you think I should feature here, please send me an email (the address is on my [http://www.vernon.eu website]).

*[http://www.upf.edu/postgrau/en/technology/presentacio/ Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain: Interdisciplinary Master in Cognitive Systems and Interactive Media (60 ECTS)]
*[http://www.in.tum.de/fuer-studieninteressierte/master-studiengaenge/robotics-cognition-intelligence.html Technical University of Munich: Robotics, Cognition, and Intelligence]
*[http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dcs/teaching/pgcourses/cogsys-msc/ University of Warwick: M.Sc. in Cognitive Systems]
*[http://www.degrees.uzh.ch/studiengang.php?CG_SAP_id=50332893&SC_SAP_id=50332888&lang=en University of Zurich: Master of Science in Informatics - Multimodal and Cognitive Systems]
*[http://www.jacobs-university.de/ses/cosyp Jacobs University, Germany: Cognitive Systems and Processes]