Nathalie Prevost
nprevost@cecm.sfu.ca  

Degrees

I received my Ph.D. degree in 2003 from Simon Fraser University. I was accepted in the Special Arrangements Program for interdisciplinary studies between the departments of Computer Science and Philosophy, in what some would call Cognitive Sciences. Cognitive Science is concerned with the study of mind and its cognitive capacity. The fields involved in this reseach are Philosophy, Computing Science, Linguistic, Psychology, Neuro-sciences and Physics.

My thesis is entitled: The Physics of Language; Towards a Phase Transition of Language Change. (pdf version).

I received my B.A. from the Universite de Montreal in the field of Philosophy.

Research Interest

I am interested in the problem of cognition, more specifically, the aspect of neuro-dynamics.

My expertise is in the field of evolution of language from a statistical mechanics point of view.

Presently I am using sparsely connected network for pattern recognition and signal processing.

Project research

The Limbics Projects, is involved in the prototyping of
interactive soft sculptures for the production of sounds reminescent of baby babble. This is the first step in a series of prototypes that explore language production and the evolution of language.

I also work in scientific visualization as perspecuity of complex data is sometimes only satisfied visually. I was recently involved in a visualization project that describes the algorythm BB84, involved in quantom cryptography. This was a co-production between the Banff New Media Institute and the University of Calgary.

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