Dear IAC Friends,
Our colleague, Nancy Nersessian, retires from Georgia Tech at the end of this semester. Nancy is Regents' Professor and Professor of Cognitive Science in the School of Interactive Computing and the School of Public Policy, and Adjunct Professor in the College of Architecture and School of Literature, Media, and Communication.
Nancy is an intellectual founder and leader of the highest caliber. She has fostered understandings of the cognitive and cultural mechanisms that support and sustain creative and innovative scientific practices. With funding from NSF, her current research addresses computational modeling practices in two biological laboratories toward understandings of how the models contribute to scientific breakthroughs.
She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Cognitive Science Science, as well as a Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. In 2011, she was awarded the inaugural Patrick Suppes Prize in Philosophy of Science by the American Philosophical Society.
Nancy is a self-exemplifying model of her own research: creative, innovative, and path-breaking in her original and lasting work.
We are honored to have had Nancy with us in IAC and Georgia Tech.
Our fond wishes go to Nancy in her continuing work and times ahead in the Boston-area, and her appointment as visiting professor at Harvard.
