David E. Rumelhart

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cognitive psychologist cognitive scientist neural network researcher person psychologist

David E. Rumelhart was a pioneering cognitive psychologist and neural network researcher whose work on parallel distributed processing and backpropagation profoundly shaped modern cognitive science and machine learning.

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instanceOf	cognitive psychologist ⓘ cognitive scientist ⓘ neural network researcher ⓘ person ⓘ psychologist ⓘ
academicDegree	Bachelor's degree in psychology ⓘ PhD in mathematical psychology ⓘ
academicPosition	professor of psychology ⓘ
almaMater	Stanford University ⓘ University of South Dakota ⓘ
approach	connectionist modeling of cognitive processes ⓘ parallel distributed processing framework ⓘ
awardReceived	American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award ⓘ surface form: APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award MacArthur Fellowship ⓘ
birthDate	1942-10-12 ⓘ
birthPlace	Wessington Springs, South Dakota, United States ⓘ
citizenship	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
coAuthor	Geoffrey Hinton ⓘ surface form: Geoffrey E. Hinton James L. McClelland NERFINISHED ⓘ Jay L. McClelland ⓘ PDP Research Group ⓘ
deathDate	2011-03-13 ⓘ
doctoralAdvisor	William K. Estes NERFINISHED ⓘ
employer	Stanford University ⓘ University of California, San Diego ⓘ
familyName	David E. Rumelhart self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Rumelhart
field	cognitive psychology ⓘ cognitive science ⓘ connectionism ⓘ mathematical psychology ⓘ neural networks ⓘ
fullName	David E. Rumelhart self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: David Everett Rumelhart
givenName	David ⓘ
hasHonor	Rumelhart Prize for Contributions to the Theoretical Foundations of Human Cognition ⓘ
honorNamedAfter	Rumelhart Prize for Contributions to the Theoretical Foundations of Human Cognition ⓘ
influenced	cognitive science ⓘ computational neuroscience ⓘ connectionist modeling ⓘ deep learning ⓘ
knownFor	backpropagation learning algorithm ⓘ connectionist models of cognition ⓘ interactive activation model of word perception ⓘ models of reading and language comprehension ⓘ parallel distributed processing ⓘ schema theory in cognitive psychology ⓘ work on learning internal representations ⓘ
notableWork	An interactive activation model of context effects in letter perception ⓘ “Learning representations by back-propagating errors” ⓘ surface form: Learning representations by back-propagating errors Parallel Distributed Processing: Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition, Volume 1 ⓘ Parallel Distributed Processing: Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition, Volume 1 ⓘ surface form: Parallel Distributed Processing: Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition, Volume 2 Schemata and the cognitive system ⓘ
researchInterest	human information processing ⓘ language processing ⓘ learning and memory ⓘ pattern recognition ⓘ

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