Josh Tenenbaum | |
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Born | 21 August 1972 |
Citizenship | United States |
Alma mater | Yale University MIT |
Known for | Bayesian cognitive science |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Artificial intelligence Cognitive science |
Institutions | Stanford University MIT |
Thesis | A Bayesian Framework for Concept Learning (1999) |
Doctoral advisor | Whitman Richards |
Doctoral students | Thomas L. Griffiths, Rebecca Saxe |
Joshua Brett Tenenbaum (Josh Tenenbaum) is Professor of Computational Cognitive Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2] He is known for contributions to mathematical psychology and Bayesian cognitive science. According to the MacArthur Foundation, which named him a MacArthur Fellow in 2019, "Tenenbaum is one of the first to develop and apply probabilistic and statistical modeling to the study of human learning, reasoning, and perception, and to show how these models can explain a fundamental challenge of cognition: how our minds understand so much from so little, so quickly."[3]
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