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.
Harry Fiss
Fiss received his doctorate in psychology from New York University in 1961. From 1963 to 1969, he was in charge of the sleep research lab at the Research Center for Mental Health at NYU, one of the first sleep research laboratories in the United States. During this time, he collaborated with George S. Klein on a series of experimental sleep and dream studies. A pioneer in the field, Dr. Fiss was principal investigator of one of the first government-funded grants in the field of sleep and dream studies. He was a professor at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and director of the Psychology Division in the Department of Psychiatry from 1973 to 1993. Fiss was also an American Board of Professional Psychology Diplomate in Clinical Psychology and a clinical psychologist, practicing individual and family therapy in West Hartford, Connecticut.