IGERT: The Dynamics of Communication in Context

该综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）奖支持宾夕法尼亚大学的多学科研究生培训计划，旨在整合通信和通信系统的计算，认知和神经科学研究，无论是人类语言，动物还是机器。 主要目的是创造一个新的传播科学家能够整合理论问题，方法和形式主义，目前分布在研究生课程，如人类学，生物学，计算机科学和工程，语言学，神经科学，哲学和心理学。 智力价值包括两个相互关联的研究主题，将统一和指导研究生培养。第一个主题强调沟通是一个动态的过程，一个沿着沿着多个时间尺度展开的过程，从毫秒（如规划和理解语音）到几个世纪（如进化中的方言、语言和动物沟通系统）。第二个主题强调沟通作为一个上下文敏感的过程中，上下文范围从物理设置和特定会话的交际历史，社会群体的语言，社会和技术的假设。学员将由一个多学科的教师团队共同建议，并将致力于一个为期五年的研究生培训计划，包括：（1）在上述现有研究生课程之一的核心学科培训;（2）在选定的第二学科为期一年的跨学科培训，包括完成一个可持续的研究项目;（3）在整个5年计划每周跨学科研究会议的参与;和（4）在专门为这个程序设计的通信数学基础的高级课程的完成。 该计划的更广泛影响包括在工业，技术和临床环境中的应用。 IGERT是一个NSF范围内的计划，旨在满足教育美国博士的挑战。具有跨学科背景的科学家和工程师，在所选学科的深厚知识，以及未来职业需求所需的技术，专业和个人技能。该计划旨在通过建立创新的研究生教育和培训新模式，在超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中促进研究生教育的文化变革。

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) award supports a multidisciplinary graduate training program at the University of Pennsylvania designed to integrate the computational, cognitive and neuroscientific study of communication and communication systems, be they characterized as human-linguistic, animal or machine. The primary purpose is to create a new breed of communication scientists capable of integrating theoretical issues, methods, and formalisms that are currently distributed across graduate programs as diverse as anthropology, biology, computer science and engineering, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, and psychology. The intellectual merit consists of the two interrelated research themes that will unite and guide graduate training. The first theme emphasizes communication as a dynamical process, one that unfolds along multiple time scales varying from milliseconds (as in planning and understanding speech) to centuries (as in evolving dialects, languages, and systems of animal communication). The second theme emphasizes communication as a context-sensitive process, where contexts range from the physical setting and communicative history of a specific conversation, to the linguistic, social and technological assumptions of social groups. Trainees will be co-advised by a multidisciplinary faculty team and will commit to a five-year graduate training program, consisting of: (1) core disciplinary training in one of the current graduate programs above; (2) one-year cross-disciplinary training in a chosen second discipline, including completion of a publishable research project; (3) participation in a weekly interdisciplinary research meeting throughout the 5-year program; and (4) completion of an advanced course in the mathematical foundations of communication specifically designed for this program. Broader impacts of this program include applications in industry, technology, and clinical settings. IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the interdisciplinary background, deep knowledge in a chosen discipline, and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education by establishing innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries.