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David Rumelhart

American psychologist (1942-2011) · United States · On the map · Academics · Died at 68

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.

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2011Died13 March 20112002Grawemeyer AwardsAward1993Howard Crosby Warren MedalAward1990AAAI FellowAward1942Born12 June 1942

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Awards

Grawemeyer Awards2002
Howard Crosby Warren Medal1993
AAAI Fellow1990
MacArthur Fellows Program
Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award

About this person

He also admired formal linguistic approaches to cognition, and explored the possibility of formulating a formal grammar to capture the structure of stories.

Country
United States
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1942 to 2011 · aged 68