David E. Rumelhart | |
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 Rumelhart in 1991 | |
| Born | June 12, 1942 |
| Died | March 13, 2011 (aged 68) |
| 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 Robert J. Glushko |
David Everett Rumelhart (June 12, 1942 – March 13, 2011)[1] 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.
- ^ Carey, Benedict (March 18, 2011). "David Rumelhart Dies at 68; Created Computer Simulations of Perception". The New York Times.