About Me
My name is Jacqueline Kory.
I’m a recent alumna of Vassar College. My big academic love is cognitive science — as one of my professors termed it, “The study of intelligence, wherever we may find it.” I’m interested in the intersection of minds, brains, and technology, so I also dabble in computer science, artificial intelligence, and robotics. I want to know what makes people people.
I was a member of the Interdisciplinary Robotics Research Laboratory at Vassar, participating in the Undergraduate Research Summer Institute in 2008 and 2009. During my semester abroad at the University of Sydney, Australia, I interned at the Brain and Mind Research Institute. In the summer of 2010, I interned at NASA Langley Research Center in the Langley Aerospace Research Summer Scholars Program — you can read about the Autonomous Vehicle Lab I helped establish!
I spent my first post-college summer as an apprentice researcher/intern at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in the Engineering Boot Camp.
Right now, I’m working as a research intern for Professor Sidney D’Mello. I spent one semester at the Institute of Intelligent Systems at the University of Memphis in the Emotive Computing lab; now I’ve moved up to the University of Notre Dame to continue the internship. I’m also applying to grad schools and planning my future.
If you want to know more, feel free to contact me.
This website is both a learning exercise in web development and a place for me to share stories about projects I’m working on (be those technology-related endeavors, art, or writing) and thoughts on all manner of subjects (with a bias for science and technology).
Why Agent Plus Environment?
The short version:
Who I am and what I am are entirely determined by the things internal to me (the agent) in relation to my interactions with the world and the other agents around me (my environment).
The long version:
I am human, and there is nothing that makes me special. I am composed of the same atoms as every other thing in existence in this universe… The universe is a purely physical place. Read more »