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Fires in 1862 and 1904 damaged buildings of downtown Troy and the RPI campus. The destruction in 1862 prompted the construction of the Main Building (literally the main building of Rensselaer at the time). The destruction of the Main Building in 1904 prompted the institute to consider expanding the
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works or cognitive science. Graduate students and professors work together to collect data and in turn analyze them for further development in cognitive research. Students being participants for this research allows them to receive extra credit for their course if allowed by their professor. This
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The research and doctoral program taking place in the Cognitive Science Department is currently having its current goals set on integrating an interdisciplinary department where the research and teaching is aimed at three powerful, driving ideas:
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In 1905 Andrew Carnegie donated $ 125,000 to replace the Main Building. As part of the institute's plan to move uphill, the 10-acre (40,000 m) Walter Phelps Warren estate was acquired. There the Carnegie Building was erected, made of
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The walls of corridors and the underclass lobby contain drawings and photographs of structures designed by RPI male students, while the walls of the upperclass lobby contain etchings of familiar classic figures.
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The third floor has a small drawing room and several classrooms. The topmost fourth floor consisted of the largest drawing room of its time (sixty by one hundred feet,) with a small side room for blue-printing.
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campus. Being built around a hill, the Institute considered extending the campus downhill within the downtown Troy area and even considered leaving Troy altogether by accepting
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There is also the closely related Rensselaer Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (RAIR) Laboratory, which is located in the Russell Sage Laboratory.
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One small program that is held in this building is the Experimetrix where students could sign up to participate in experiments that deal with how the
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Cognitive engineering: engineering the interface between the natural cognitive systems and task environments by exploiting experimental data.
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campus. Ultimately, the decision was made to remain in Troy but move uphill, away from the downtown area.
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On the first floor, the four large recitation rooms were utilized by the departments of
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area of experiments is currently being held on the second floor of the building.
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floors, and partitions were used to split rooms. This fireproof building had
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The building is home to the Cogworks laboratory, which directs research in
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who donated $ 125,000 for its construction, which was completed in 1906.
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and Drawings while the second floor was occupied by the department of
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In addition to being built with Harvard brick and Indiana limestone -
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so that they go beyond the current available structure towards
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is the current home of the Cognitive Science Department at
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Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, New York
Hudson River
Andrew Carnegie

Columbia University
New York City
Harvard brick
Indiana limestone
Whitfield & King
Andrew Carnegie
concrete
steel
terrazzo
Geodesy
Mechanics
Mathematics
cognitive science
artificial intelligence
cognitive architectures
Allen Newell
brain
"Main Building Fire Sparks a Rebirth"
the original
"Main Building | Institute Archives and Special Collections"


"Carnegie Building"
the original
"About the Cognitive Science Department | The School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences"

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