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.
Brian Cutillo
Brian Cutillo worked with his MIT classmate, Dr. Alan Gevins, in the
early days of the EEG Systems Lab in San Francisco. Cutillo co-authored
with Dr. Gevins, and others, numerous scientific research papers
including 3 papers published in "Science", the Journal of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science. Along with a paper from the
EEG Systems Lab in "Science" in 1979, these 3 papers helped usher in the
modern era of cognitive neuroscience by reporting advanced computerized
methods of measuring the electrical signals in the human brain
reflecting fundamental cognitive processes of attention.