Welcome to COSSAC

Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration in Cognitive Science & Systems Engineering.

"Cognitive systems are natural or artificial information processing systems, including those responsible for perception, learning, reasoning, decision-making, communication and action”

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About COSSAC

COSSAC is a collaboration between three universities - Oxford, UCL and Edinburgh. COSSAC's goal is to learn about the nature of high level cognition and apply this understanding in building and deploying medical applications. We also aim to demonstrate the power of our approach to cognitive systems in non-medical domains, and to develop a sound engineering framework for exploiting cognitive science and systems more widely.

Groups

The IRC consists of groups from three universities:

An engineering group based at the University of Oxford focusing on "next generation" technologies which can be used for clinical (and non-clinical) applications;
A clinical group at University College London Medical School based at the Royal Free Hospital;
A research group in the School of Informatics at Edinburgh University, focussing on the formal foundations for intelligent systems in healthcare delivery.

Affiliates

COSSAC members work closely with several affiliated groups.

BirkbeckBirkbeck Birkbeck College is the home of the Cogent cognitive modelling tool.
UCL CHIMEUCL CHIME The Centre for Health Informatics and Multiprofessional Education at UCL collaborates with teaching and research.
OpenClinicalOpenClinical OpenClinical is an online portal of information about clinical decision support systems and a repository of shared implementations.

Support

The IRC is supported in part by Cancer Research UK through a programme grant for "Scientific and Mathematical Foundations for Cancer Informatics: an Interdisciplinary Approach" and by EU and UK research council grants.