Tom Griffiths (cognitive scientist)

Tom Griffiths
Born
London, England
Alma materUniversity of Western Australia
Stanford University
Scientific career
FieldsPsychology
Cognitive science
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Princeton University[1]
Thesis Causes, coincidences, and theories  (2005)
Doctoral advisorJoshua Tenenbaum

Thomas L. Griffiths (born circa 1978)[2] is an Australian academic who is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Information Technology, Consciousness, and Culture at Princeton University. He studies human decision-making and its connection to problem-solving methods in computation. His book with Brian Christian, Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions, was named one of the "Best Books of 2016" by MIT Technology Review.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference TG_CV was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Aerodynamics For Cognition: A Conversation With Tom Griffiths". edge.org. Edge Foundation. 21 August 2017. Retrieved 15 August 2022. It was 1994, I was sixteen years old, and I had no idea what I wanted to do. [also on video at 38:30]