Jim Davies, 2009: ANNUAL REPORT ON PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITES

Complete in triplicate: one copy for personal file, one for departmental file, one for Dean (via chairman/director).

1.	Honours received

2.	Publications
a)	Books published or edited (indicate place, publisher and pagination):
b)	Articles published in edited books or referred journals:

Davies, J., Goel, A. K. & Yaner, P. W. (2008). Proteus: Visuospatial analogy in problem-solving.  Knowledge-Based Systems. 27(7), 636-654.

Davies, J., Goel, A. K., & Nersessian, N. J. (2009). A Computational Model of Visual
Analogies in Design. Cognitive Systems Research: Special Issue on Analogies, 10, 204--215.

a)	Articles published in refereed conference proceeding:
b)	Encyclopedia articles published (please indicate pagination):
c)	Catalogues, Textbooks, Technical Reports and Creative Writing published:
d)	Articles in non-refereed journals and miscellaneous scholarly publications:
e)	Review articles and book reviews published (give author, book, journal and pagination):
f)	Journalistic Writing:
g)	Work in press or accepted for publication (indicate with *items reported in this category last year):

Goel, A. K. & Davies, J. (forthcoming 2010). Artificial Intelligence. in S. B. Kaufman and R. Sternberg (Eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence (3rd Edition).

Davies, J. (in press, 2009). Experience-based reasoning as the basis of a general artificial intelligence architecture. IJCAI Workshop on Grand Challenges for Reasoning from
Experiences. Pasadena, California, July 11, 2009.

Thomson, R. & Davies, J. (in press, 2009). Distance Estimation as a Process of Gener-
ating Ad-Hoc Metrical Systems. Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

1.	Editorial Responsibilities	

2.	Papers Presented
a)	At Learned Societies or before other Academic Bodies outside of 
Carleton:

Schoenherr, J.R., Davies, J., Burch, H., Thomson, R. (2009). The believability of anthro-
pomorphic explanations. Poster presentation at the 31st Annual Conference of the Societe
Quebecoise Pour La Recherche En Psychologie (SQRP09). Ottawa, Ontario, March 22, p151.

b)	Non-Academic Talks:
c)	Sessions chaired, papers commented on, round-table presentations at professional conferences:
d)	Invited talks (other than lectures in your own courses) given at Carleton:

1.	Other forms of scholarly productivity such as exhibits arranged, plays produced, tests devised, recitals, poetry readings, etc.

2.	Research Grants Received (note source, topic, sum and add * if this grant was reported last year)

Davies, J. (2008). Graphical Representations of Scientific Inter-relationships. SciTech
Strategies, Inc. grant. $10,765 USD.

Davies, J. (2009). Visuospatial Scene Generation. National Science and Engineering Re-
search Counsel (NSERC) Discovery Grant. $95,000 CAD ($19,000 per year for five years).

3.	Service to the Profession
a)	Offices held in local, national or international academic bodies:
b)	Positions held on selection committees (OGS, SSHRCC, etc.) or performance adjudication boards:
c)	Manuscript appraisals for journals or publishers:

3 papers for the Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
2 papers for the Workshop on Grand Challenges on Experience-Based Reasoning

d)	Assessment of research proposal for SSHRCC, etc.:
e)	Assessment of university programs or of candidates for promotion at other universities:
f)	External examiner for MA or Ph.D. theses at other universities:
g)	Other forms of service to the profession:

Editor of Cognitive Science Summaries website:
URL: http://www.jimdavies.org/summaries/

1.	Consultancies and Contract Research (note any unpublished reports resulting from this work)

2.	Academic Responsibilities
a)	Graduate and undergraduate courses and seminars taught (note contact hours and whether team-taught):

[CGSC6800] Proseminar in Cognitive Science 
Carleton University
Instructor. 3 hours in class per week
Fall  2008

[CGSC 4001] Artificial Intelligence for Cognitive Science 
Carleton University
Instructor. 3 hours in class per week
Winter 2009

[CGSC 5001] Artificial Intelligence for Cognitive Science
Carleton University
Instructor. 3 hours in class per week
Fall 2008

[CGSC 2002]
Theories and Methods in Cognitive Science
Carleton University
Instructor. 3 hours in class per week
Winter 2009

b)	Directed Studies courses taught (note number of each course and number of students in that course):
c)	Theses supervised (note program, department, name of student, title of thesis (if completed), and whether work is at planning, research/writing, dormant or completion stage):
d)	Thesis boards participated on in a capacity other than supervisor:  

e)	Joey Theberge 2008 (BA, Honours)

f)	Innovative teaching methods employed:

Assigned students to summarize papers for the Cognitive Science Summaries Website.
Assigned students to create mnemonics for remembering the functions of brain areas for eventual use on a website.
Assigned the writing of podcast transcripts for eventual use in a cognitive science podcast.

1.	Administrative Responsibilities and Committee Assignments
a)	Departmental:

Annual March Break Program, Pitch to high school students, speaker
2007, 2008, 2009

Cognitive Science Distinguished Lecture Series, coordinator, 
Fall 2006 – Present

Cognitive Science / Linguistics Promotion Committee (2008-2009)

Cognitive Science / Psychology Promotion Committee (2008-2009)

Member, Institute of Cognitive Science Graduate Admissions Committee (2009)

Member, Institute of Cognitive Science Faculty Hiring Committee (2008-2009)

a)	Faculty:
	Member, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Promotion Review Committee
2008

b)	University:

1.	Any other information you wish to bring to the attention of the Promotions Committee and the Dean of Arts and Social Sciences.

FASS
01/05/2001