• President, Society for Philosophy and Psychology. 2000 - 01.
  • President, Cognitive Science Society. 1995 - 96, 1996 - 97.
  • Annual Conference Oversight Committee, Cognitive Science Society. 1995 - 98.
  • Governing Board, Cognitive Science Society. 1992 - 98.
  • Executive Board, Society for Philosophy and Psychology. 1988 - 91, 1994 - 97.
  • International Advisory Board, Cognitive Science Department, New Bulgarian University. 1993 - present.

  • Editorial Board, Minds and Machines: Journal for Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science. 1990 - present.
  • Editorial Board, Cognitive Science. 1988 - present.
  • Editorial Board, Connection Science: A Journal of Neural Computing, Artificial Intelligence, and Cognitive Research. 1988 - present.

  • Advisory Board, Neural Network Series, MIT Press. 1990 - present.
  • Advisory Editorial Board, Network: Computation in Neural Systems. 1989 - 91.

  • Program Committee, Cognitive Science Society Conference, University of Pennsylvania, August 2000.
  • Organizing Committee, Cognitive Science Society Conference, Stanford, CA, July 1997.
  • Organizer, Symposium on Connectionism and Language, Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Baltimore, MD, February 1996.
  • Program Committee, Association for Computational Linguistics Conference, Cambridge, MA, June 1995.
  • Organizer, Symposium on Connectionism and Cognitive Science, First International Summer Institute in Cognitive Science, Buffalo, NY, July 1994.
  • Organizing Committee, Cognitive Science Society Conference, Boulder, CO, June 1993.
  • Organizing Committee, Connectionist Models Summer School, Boulder, CO, June 1993.
  • Honorary Organizing Committee, Neural Networks Symposium, International Symposia on Information Sciences, Iizuka, Kyushu, Japan, July, 1992.