David Rumelhart
Psychologist, Academic
1942 – 2011
Who was David Rumelhart?
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.
In 1986, Rumelhart published Parallel Distributed Processing: Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition with James McClelland, which described their creation of computer simulations of perception, giving to computer scientists their first testable models of neural processing, and which is now regarded as a central text in the field of cognitive science.
Rumelhart's models of semantic cognition and specific knowledge in a diversity of learned domains using initially non-hierarchical neuron-like processing units continue to interest scientists in the fields of artificial intelligence, anthropology, information science, and decision science.
In his honor, in 2000 the Robert J. Glushko and Pamela Samuelson Foundation created the David E.
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- Born
- Jun 12, 1942
Wessington Springs - Also known as
- David Everett Rumelhart
- David E Rumelhart
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Stanford University
- University of South Dakota
- Lived in
- Ann Arbor
- Died
- Mar 13, 2011
Chelsea
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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