# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-rumelhart
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:11:35.831Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/david-rumelhart"
name: "David Rumelhart"
slug: "david-rumelhart"
description: "David Everett Rumelhart was an American psychologist who made many contributions to the formal analysis of human cognition, working primarily within the frameworks of mathematical psychology, symbolic artificial intelligence, and parallel distributed processing. He also admired formal linguistic approaches to cognition, and explored the possibility of formulating a formal grammar to capture the structure of stories."
tagline: "American psychologist (1942-2011)"
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birthDate: "1942-06-12"
deathDate: "2011-03-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump