Tom McCoy Receives Glushko Dissertation Prize

Professor Tom McCoy was one of this year’s seven recipients of the Glushko Dissertation Prize. The prize is awarded annually by the Cognitive Science Society and the Glushko-Samuelson Foundation. Its goal is to recognize dissertations that “centrally address issues of interest to multiple fields that comprise cognitive science, including psychology, computer science, philosophy, linguistics, anthropology, neuroscience, and education.” Professor McCoy’s dissertation was completed in 2022 in the Department of Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University, co-advised by Paul Smolensky and Tal Linzen. Its title is “Implicit compositional structure in the vector representations of artificial neural networks.”

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