Porter Coggins

One son, 17 years old, two Norwegian Forest Cats, tinkerer by nature, the pins in my map of life resemble the random salesman walk.

Cognitive Science

Areas of Interest

Foreign languages (Czech, Russian, Polish, Danish, Finnish, Dutch, Irish, Homeric Greek), computing languages (LISP, Python, Prolog, LOGO, and Ruby), Corpus Callosum, Cognitive Architectures, Machine Learning, Genetic Programming.

 

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Publications

Coggins, III, P. E. (04 May – 06 May, 2005) Neuroscience insights to Mathematical Processing. Paper presented at the 37th Annual Green Lake Conference of the Wisconsin Mathematics Council, Green Lake, WI.

Coggins, III, P. E. (04 May – 06 May, 2005) Building patterns from the bottom up. Paper presented at the 37th Annual Green Lake Conference of the Wisconsin Mathematics Council, Green Lake, WI.

Coggins, III, P.E., Kennedy, T.K., & Armstrong, T.A. (April 2004). Bilingual corpus callosum variation. Brain and Language 89: 69-75.

Coggins, III, P. E. (06 May – 07 May, 2004) Patterns are Everywhere. 36th Annual Green Lake Conference of the Wisconsin Mathematics Council

Armstrong, T.A., Kennedy, T.K., & Coggins, III. P.E. (2002). Summarizing concepts about teacher education, learning, and neuroscience. NORTHWEST PASSAGE: Journal of Educational Practices, 2, 9-13.

Coggins, III. P. E. (2002). Corpus callosum variation in gifted and talented pre-adolescent children. Dissertation Abstracts International (UMI), Accession No: AA13043267

Kelly, G., & Coggins, III, P.E. (2002). Teaming up to make learning a reality. Learning & Leading with Technology, 29, 36-41.

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Journal Referee

1. The 11th Annual Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges Northeastern Conference, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, April 21 – 22, 2006. “The CCSCNE brings together faculty, staff, and students from academic institutions throughout the Northeast for exchange of ideas and information concerning undergraduate computing curricula.”

2. NCTM Journal Teaching Children Mathematics (2005)

3. The 2005 Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE Oct 2005) FIE is a major annual international conference devoted to improvements in computer science, engineering, and technology (CSET) education.

4. The 21st Annual Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges Eastern Conference Iona College, New Rochelle, NY, October 14 - 15, 2005. “The Consortium is concerned with the advancement of major programs in both Computer Science and Computer Information Systems, and with the use of computers in the Liberal Arts and Sciences.”

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Professional Memberships
Cognitive Science Society
Association for Computational Linguistics Association for Computing Machinery o Sigcse o Sigevo o Sigart Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence IEEE o Computational Intelligence Society.

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Volunteer and Community Service
College Days for Kids, (Rubik’s Cube, Chess) University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Spring 2006 Volunteer, Labor of Love, University – Community Relations August 2005 Volunteer, Gesell Early Childhood Institute, UWSP, Spring, Summer 2004 Volunteer, American Heart Association, Fundraiser walk, May 2003, 2004 Volunteer, Portage County Library Children’s Summer Chess Club, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Volunteer, Wisconsin FIRST LEGO League, Fall 2003, Fall 2004 Volunteer, Special Olympics, June 1999, 2003.

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Something unusual

I tie my shoes with a tripple bow.