The Institute for Intelligent Systems (IIS) at the University of Memphis is seeking applications from outstanding students with an interest in dialogue systems, computational semantics, and knowledge representation. Students interested in computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, learning sciences, and cognitive psychology are encouraged to apply.  In addition to pursuing a master's or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science or Psychology, students will work part-time on innovative research projects, for which they receive a tuition waver and a competitive stipend. Students will have the opportunity to present at international conferences and publish in academic journals.

The Institute for Intelligent Systems (IIS) at the University of Memphis is an interdisciplinary center that incorporates the fields of computer science, cognitive science, psychology, computational linguistics, philosophy, engineering, and physics.  The students and faculty are working on a number of federal grants that involve the development and testing of intelligent tutoring systems with natural language and dialogue facilities, of conversational agents with speech generation, facial expressions, and gestures, and of other computer systems that require natural language processing.  This year alone the IIS was awarded over $6 million in external funding. For more information on the IIS, see www.memphis.edu/iis

Interested applicants should contact Dr. Andrew Olney (aolney@memphis.edu) for more information.