David Rumelhart
David Everett Rumelhart (June 12, 1942 – March 13, 2011) 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.
David E. Rumelhart | |
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David Rumelhart at the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) in Seattle on 8 July 1991 | |
| Born | June 12, 1942 Wessington Springs, South Dakota |
| Died | March 13, 2011 (aged 68) |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Connectionism Artificial neural network modeling Deep Learning Applications of backpropagation |
| Awards | MacArthur Fellowship (July 1987) National Academy of Sciences Warren Medal of the Society of Experimental Psychologists APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award (2002) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psychology |
| Institutions | Stanford University University of California, San Diego |
| Thesis | The Effects of Interpresentation Intervals on Performance in a Continuous Paired-Associate Task (1967) |
| Doctoral advisor | William Kaye Estes |
| Doctoral students | Michael I. Jordan |
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