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You should have an undergraduate degree of at least second class standard with maths at GCSE or equivalent. In exceptional circumstances, outstanding practitioners or individuals with strong commercial experience may be considered. If your first language is not English, you should normally have a minimum score of 7.0 in IELTS (including 7.0 in the written element) or equivalent. Find out more about our English Language requirements.
The modular structure and choices provided by this programme enable it to be equally accessible and challenging to students with a background in the pure sciences, the applied engineering sciences (including computing) and the arts/humanities (including psychologists, linguists and anthropologists). The award of MSc emphasises the technical focus to the interdisciplinary content of the degree.
You can watch a video featuring a student project on YouTube. Previous student projects have included work on: robot ethics; financial time series prediction; swarm intelligence; ant algorithms; artificial life; the prisoners dilemma; game playing; eye tracking user interface; brain rehabilitation software; intelligent tutoring systems; adaptive hypermedia; intelligent learning environments.
The MSc in Cognitive Computing has been specifically developed to take graduates from a wide range of backgrounds and critically introduce them to classical computational models of cognition and artificial intelligence in the context of a broad exploration of radical new theoretical approaches, characterised by their emphasis on embodiment, enactivism and European phenomenology.
The aim of this programme is to produce graduates who have a deep conceptual understanding of cognition and the mind. Our graduates leave the programme with solid understanding of:
The programme will consist of the following compulsory courses, covering topics including: computing machinery and intelligence (the fundamentals of computing, program speedup, limitations of computing, what is a computer?); the philosophy of artificial intelligence (critical review of key papers in the foundations of artificial intelligence); problems with computationalism (review of critiques by Dreyfus, Searle, Varela, Brooks, Penrose, Putnam, van Gelder, and more).
In addition, you will take one of the following compulsory courses:
You can also select two optional 15 credit courses (or one 30 credit course). Such options may include:
Throughout the programme, individual modules will be assessed by formative and summative assignments. In addition to these small assignments, you will complete a major project in the summer term. This is a large-scale piece of work which should integrate what you have learned throughout the programme. It provides students with an opportunity to independently tackle a large project that reflects real world software development.
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