Teaching et cetera

• Fall 2010:
• Consciousness and Free Will [prerequisite: Psych/Cogst/Info 2140] [loc/time TBA] (PSYCH 4320, crosslisted as: COGST 4310, LING 4310, BIONB 4330) [last year's version is here].
• Spring 2010:
• Computational Psychology [TR 11:40-12:55, Uris Hall Auditorium] (PSYCH/COGST/INFO 2140/6140). Note: you must take this course first if you plan ever to take the advanced course Consciousness and free will.
• Embodied Cognition [with Mike Goldstein; W 10:10 - 12:35, 438 Uris Hall] (Cogst 4650/6650).
• Older courses

For prospective graduate students: IMAGINE, or, how to get the best of two worlds.

Books

Representation and Recognition in Vision (MIT Press, 1999): see table of contents and introduction; read online (for CogNet subscribers; if you connect from cornell.edu, you are).	Computing the Mind (Oxford University Press, 2008): see table of contents; read reviews; visit Facebook Page; see corrigenda. Used for teaching at Cornell since 2006 (now also at NYU).
My Amazon Author page

Other publications

• My online papers: the Experimental Epistemology Project REPRINT ARCHIVE.

Varia

• Some of the photographs from my albums:
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  • Hikes:
    • Death Valley NP (March 2008)
    • Fall Canyon (Death Valley NP, March 2009)
    • the Negev Desert in May
    • Tabletop Mountain Wilderness, AZ
    • Mt. Ajo, Organ Pipe National Monument, AZ
    • Echo Canyon, Chiricahua National Monument, AZ
    • wadi Roded, the Lost Canyon, and wadi Shehoret, near Eilat, Israel
    • wadi Arugot, near Ein Gedi, Israel [photos scanned from old color prints]
  • Selections:
    • flowers
    • wabi sabi
    • Tel Aviv
    • Jerusalem
    • sunrises, moonsets, etc.
    • the human condition
• My curriculum vitae (PDF; also overview)
• Some old talks and stuff
• Cycling around Ithaca, NY
• Life, universe and everything:
• the journey to Ixtlan
• my God problem
• how the empire strikes back
• the future, from the Ha'aretz site.

Links

• Software
• General-purpose programming:
  • SBCL: Steel Bank Common Lisp.
  • (Why Lisp? Here; also this.)
• Exploratory data analysis and statistics:
  • The R language environment (as powerful as the best commercial packages, and infinitely more free).
  • The R Graph Gallery.
  • An introduction to R for psychologists.
  • An introduction to R for corpus linguistics and psycholinguistics.
• Language aquisition:
• The ADIOS (Automatic DIstillation Of Structure) software package.
• CHILDES: Child Language Data Exchange System (corpora and software).
• Writing:
• Emacs (the best text editor in the world, free).
• ESS: Emacs Speaks Statistics.
• SLIME: the Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs.
• LaTeX (production-quality typesetting, free). If you have a Mac, get MacTex; if you don't, get a Mac first.
• The memoir class for typesetting books, poetry, and much more.
• (Natural) Philosophy
• David Hume... as I like to say, "I think, therefore I Hume (I wish)."
• William James, to whose Principles of Psychology so much of cognitive science is but a footnote.
• People (alphabetically by last name)
• Nick Bostrom
• Daniel Dennett
• Nicholas Gier
• John Goldsmith
• Thomas Metzinger
• Paul Postal
• Eytan Ruppin
• Jürgen Schmidhuber
• Aaron Sloman
• Josh Tenenbaum
• Poetry (selections)
• Perennials
• The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
• Иосиф Бродский (Joseph Brodsky), complete works
• רחל (Rachel), complete works
• Ulysses by Alfred Tennyson
• 十牛 (10 Bulls) by Kuòān Shīyuǎn (廓庵師遠)
• Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman
• Ode to Psyche by John Keats
• Ephemerals
• Some of my poems and translations
• Prose (selections)
• Ursula K. Le Guin
• Михаил Булгаков (Mikhail Bulgakov), complete works, including two English translations of The Master and Margarita
• Greg Egan
• Michael Swanwick
• Виктор Пелевин (Victor Pelevin)
• Jorge Luis Borges (some of the originals here)
• Stanisław Lem
• Vladimir Nabokov (Владимир Набоков; Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle)
• Iain M. Banks
• J. R. R. Tolkien
• Margaret Atwood
• Music (selections)
• Yair Dalal
• J. S. Bach
• Shye Ben-Tzur
• Gustav Mahler
• Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
• John Brown's Body
• Romica Puceanu
• Online libraries:
• Project Gutenberg
• Библиотека lib.ru
• The Online Library of Liberty
• Project Bartleby
• פרויקט בן-יהודה
• The Poetry Foundation
• Periodicals and blogs
• Frontiers in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology
• Behavioral and Brain Sciences
• Language Log
• Phenomena
• Arts & Letters Daily
• Edge
• xkcd
• Pathsplitter
• Peace
• سلام‎, שלום
• Peace rally at the Rabin Square, Tel Aviv, 12 November 2005: שיר לשלום [Shir la-Shalom, Peace Song] (Quicktime, 22MB; performed by Miri Aloni, with 200,000 friends, including President Bill Clinton and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-NY)
• Family and friends
• photography page and portfolio by Ira Edelman
• Fontef: design by Yanek Iontef
• all*over*print: design by Ayelet Iontef
• Varia
• Some of my former students
  • Kalanit Grill-Spector
  • Zach Solan
• Natural Born Hikers