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The M.Sc. in IT and Cognition at University of Copenhagen is an exclusive program for a small group of talented and focused students who wish to excel in developing advanced cognitive technologies. Students will learn to deal with the complexity of human language, vision and cognition, design innovative and intelligent information and communication technology (ICT) using knowledge of language and human cognition, and identify new interesting applications of cognitive models. Students are presented with cutting-edge technologies such as natural language parsing, object recognition, virtual agents, machine translation, or visual scene analysis.
The staff offers considerable guidance and support, incl. monthly interviews with the students, guest lectures, supervision of voluntary research projects and the organization of student workshops. The monthly interviews are used to continuously evaluate the study program, to supervise the students and to be able to better recruit students for research projects and collaborations with industry. Past guest lectures have, for example, been about language acquisition, authorship attribution, epistemic logic, learning mathematics, and visual attention. We invite both researchers and industry partners to give guest lectures.
Candidates will be interesting to industry as well as research, and are popular in both places. Our past students have jobs at places like SAS Institute, Gallup, Textkernel, or continue their studies in PhD programs at universities in Denmark or elsewhere.
The M.Sc. in IT and Cognition consists of cognitive and technical courses. In the first year, students gain knowledge of scientific programming (in Python), data structures and search algorithms, cognitive psychology, language technology and methodology that is necessary for more advanced research into cognitive science. The students can tailor the program to some extent by selecting between constituent courses. Cognitive Research I is obligatory for all students. Introduction to Programming is obligatory for students who have no prior knowledge of programming.
In the third semester, all students take Cognitive Research II. In addition, students have the opportunity to specialise in language technology, adaptive systems (machine learning), or man-machine interaction. This specialisation in turn forms the basis for the Master's thesis, which is written in the fourth semester.
It is also possible to do the second or third semester in another country. IT and Cognition students have, for example, taken semesters at University of Amsterdam and University of Edinburgh.
EU/EEA students are exempt from tuition while non EU/EEA students are eligible for levying of tuition which amounts to DKK 188,000 (DKK 47,000 per semester).
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