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John Amsden Starkweather | |
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| Born | August 30, 1925 |
| Died | March 10, 2001 (aged 75) |
| Alma mater | Yale, B.A. in Art, 1950; Northwestern, Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, 1955 |
| Known for | PILOT programming language |
| Awards | Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics |
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| Fields | Psychology |
| Institutions | University of California, San Francisco |
| Doctoral advisor | Carl Porter Duncan |
| Doctoral students | Paul Ekman, Gio Wiederhold |
John Amsden Starkweather (August 30, 1925 – March 10, 2001) was an American Professor of Medical Psychology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Starkweather was a clinical psychologist and a valued teacher by generations of clinical psychology interns and graduate students at UCSF. He was a pioneer in taking a psychologist's view of the emerging computer field and incorporating concepts as well as numbers to language processing.