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aakash Posted on 09-Aug-03 08:02 PM

what is computer psychology? I am trying to get more info about it. Any help from you all is highly appreciated. Is it some kind of new computer based subject that universities offers in the states? Can anybody take their major as Computer psychology? what is it all about?
Echoes Posted on 10-Aug-03 09:35 PM

aakash-jyu,

As I am not familiar with "computer psychology" as such and no one has responded to your request yet, my suggestion is that Artificial Intelligence could be what you are really referring to.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a study of human cognitive conditions/behaviors and the ways of implementing them in machines, particularly computers and robots. The underlying context is that no matter how fast today's computers are able to process information, they still lack even the basic human-like intelligence, primarily because it is extremely hard to program a human thought process.

Many Computer Science departments in the US universities have adopted AI as a branch of Computer Science. A number of large-scale research programs are currently being conducted and the schools have also started offering courses and majors (even Ph.D.) in AI. Although the results so far haven't been very exciting, the eventual goal of this discipline could be to create a computer that can, for example, love, hate or like rock and roll.

If AI is what you think you are interested in, I may be able to provide you with more information.