Cognitive science
The term "cognitive science" was coined by Christopher Longuet-Higgins in his 1973 commentary on the Lighthill report, which concerned the then-current state of Artificial Intelligence research. In the same decade, the journal "Cognitive Science" and the Cognitive Science Society were founded. The founding meeting of the Cognitive Science Society was held at the University of California, San Diego in 1979, which resulted in cognitive science becoming an internationally visible enterprise. In 1972, Hampshire College started the first undergraduate education program in Cognitive Science, led by Neil Stillings. In 1982, with assistance from Professor Stillings, Vassar College became the first institution in the world to grant an undergraduate degree in Cognitive Science. In 1986, the first Cognitive Science Department in the world was founded at the University of California, San Diego.
Lissy Jarvik
After receiving her medical degree, Jarvik began working at both the psychiatry department at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute. She became a professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1972, remaining on the faculty there until 1975. While at UCLA, she founded the first inpatient psychogeriatrics unit at the hospital there, as well as the first behavioral science course for student in their first year of medical school. She also founded the first inpatient psychogeriatrics unit in the Department of Veterans Affairs during this time. In the early 1980s, she started a geriatric psychiatry fellowship, in which fellows would be trained at the Los Angeles Jewish Home for the Aging. In 1987, she was a founding co-editor-in-chief of the medical journal "Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders". Also in 1987, she was named a Distinguished Physician in the Department of Veterans Affairs, a position she held until 1993. She was a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University in 1988–89. In 1993, she was named the first recipient of the William C. Menninger Memorial Award from the American College of Physicians. In 2015, she and Bruce D. Walker were jointly awarded the Distinguished Alumni/ae Award from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.