About Me
My name is Jacqueline Kory. I’m a student at Vassar College. My major and big academic love is Cognitive Science–as one of my professors termed it, “The study of intelligence, wherever we may find it.” I’m also a fan of computer science, programming, and robotics.
I’ve been involved in robotics research 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. This summer, I’m interning at NASA Langley Research Center in the Langley Aerospace Research Summer Scholars Program. Read about my summer!
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 »