text_combined: nick cassimatis hbixagrpiedu funding new graduate students humanlevel intelligence laboratory rensselaer department cognitive science overall aim humanlevel intelligence laboratory advance level intelligence computational systems model developing framework integrating strengths multiple computational methods single system current projects involve natural language understanding hybrids probabilistic logical structured inference strategies reasoning beliefs desires intentions people rpi toptier research university cognitive science department identified phd program research primary missions department conducting research number areas cognitive modeling human machine learning multiagent interactions social simulation neural networks connectionist models human machine reasoning cognitive engineering etc rpi located historic troy ny hudson river valley approximately 5 miles north albany ny three hours south montreal 25 hours west boston two hours north new york city amtrak runs several trains daily albany area notable things including affordable housing cultural events eg famed saratoga performing arts center proximity outdoor recreation eg hikingskiing adirondack white green berkshire mountains see web pages regarding research httpwwwcassimatiscomprojectshtml httpwwwcassimatiscomhlilhtml application procedure see httpwwwrpiedudeptadmissionsgraduateapplication_inst ructionshtml decide apply let know sending short email mention interest humanlevel intelligence lab statement purpose fri 08 aug 2008 044453 0500 uai graduate study humanlevel intellience laboratory