{"68175":{"#nid":"68175","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Computing Professor Elected To Prestigious International Academy","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EATLANTA (May 15, 2006)--\u003C\/strong\u003ENancy Nersessian, professor of cognitive science at the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, has recently been elected a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. With this appointment, the Royal Academy recognizes Nersessian\u0027s outstanding scientific achievements in the area of Cognitive Science and her ongoing efforts to further the development and impact of this interdisciplinary field.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENersessian is also recognized for her penetrating cognitive-historical analysis of the transition from classical to modern physics in the late 19th and early 20th century, a period during which Dutch physicists such as Lorentz, Zeeman, Van der Waals and Kamerlingh Onnes--all of them Nobel laureates--played a formidable role.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and sciences was established in 1808 and presently comprises a total of 200 active ordinary members, as well as approximately 250 emeritus members, 70 corresponding members and 140 foreign members. Among the latter, are such renowned scientists as computer scientist Fredrick Brooks (North Carolina), physiologist Colin Blakemore (Oxford), astronomer Martin Rees (Cambridge), anthropologist Claude L\u0026eacute;vi-Strauss (Paris), psychologist George Miller (Princeton), psycholinguist Eve Clark (Stanford) and philosopher of science Bas van Fraassen (Princeton).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more information about the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, \u003Ca href=\u0022\/\/www.knaw.nl\u0026quot;\u0022 target=\u0022\u0026quot;_blank\u0026quot;\u0022\u003Eclick here\u003C\/a\u003E. (English translation tab is at top-right)\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENancy Nersessian, professor of cognitive science at the College of Computing, was recently elected a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2011-06-20 17:13:04","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:09:21","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-05-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2006-05-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}