Roger Schank
American scientist (1946–2023) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Roger Carl Schank (March 12, 1946 – January 29, 2023) was an American artificial intelligence theorist, cognitive psychologist, learning scientist, educational reformer, and entrepreneur. Beginning in the late 1960s, he pioneered conceptual dependency theory (within the context of natural language understanding) and case-based reasoning, both of which challenged cognitivist views of memory and reasoning. He began his career teaching at Yale University and Stanford University. In 1989, Schank was granted $30 million in a ten-year commitment to his research and development by Andersen Consulting, through which he founded the Institute for the Learning Sciences (ILS) at Northwestern University in Chicago.
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Born | (1946-03-12)March 12, 1946 New York City, U.S. |
Died | January 29, 2023(2023-01-29) (aged 76) Shelburne, Vermont, U.S. |
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Children | 2 |
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Thesis | A Conceptual Dependency Representation for a Computer-Oriented Semantics (1969) |
Doctoral advisor | Jacob L. Mey |
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Website | rogerschank |