John Robert Anderson (born 1947 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a professor of psychology and computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. He is widely known for his work on the cognitive architecture ACT-R. 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Members of Parliament Libby Davies, Ujjal Dosanjh, David Emerson, Hedy Fry, Stephen Owen Members of the Legislative Assembly Gordon Campbell, David Chudnovsky, Adrian Dix, Colin Hansen, Jenny Kwan, Lorne Mayencourt, Wally Oppal, Gregor Robertson, Shane Simpson, Carole Taylor Mayor Sam Sullivan City Manager Judy Rogers Governing Body Vancouver City Council... Motto: Splendor Sine Occasu (Latin: Splendour without diminishment) Official languages English, French Capital Victoria Largest city Vancouver Lieutenant-Governor Iona Campagnolo Premier Gordon Campbell (BC Liberal) Parliamentary representation  - House seat  - Senate seats 36 6 Area Total  â€¢ Land  â€¢ Water    (% of total)  Ranked 5th 944,735 km² 925,186 km² 19,549... Auguste Rodins The Thinker, bronze cast by Alexis Rudier, Laeken Cemetery, Brussels, Belgium. ... Computer science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. ... Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ... A cognitive architecture is a (artificial) computational process that acts like a certain cognitive system, most often, like a person, or acts intelligent under some definition. ... ACT-R (pronounced actor) is a symbolic cognitive architecture, created by John R. Anderson and others at Carnegie-Mellon University. ...

Short Biography

Anderson was studying psychology at the University of British Columbia and Stanford from 1964 to 1974. He went on teaching at Yale. Since 1978, he is working as a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. From 1988 to 1989, he was president of the Cognitive Science Society. In 2004 he won the David E. Rumelhart Prize for Contributions to the Formal Analysis of Human Cognition. The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public university with its main campus located at Point Grey, in the University Endowment Lands of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and another smaller campus known as UBC Okanagan located in Kelowna, British Columbia. ... The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University (or simply Stanford), is a privately-funded American university in Stanford, California. ... Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. ... Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ... David E. Rumelhart has made many contributions to the formal analysis of human cognition, working primarily within the frameworks of mathematical psychology, symbolic artificial intelligence, and parallel distributed processing. ...

Work

Anderson is known mostly because of his work on ACT-R, a cognitive architecture that models different aspects of cognition. ACT-R (pronounced actor) is a symbolic cognitive architecture, created by John R. Anderson and others at Carnegie-Mellon University. ... A cognitive architecture is a (artificial) computational process that acts like a certain cognitive system, most often, like a person, or acts intelligent under some definition. ...

See also

• ACT-R

ACT-R (pronounced actor) is a symbolic cognitive architecture, created by John R. Anderson and others at Carnegie-Mellon University. ...

External links

• Personal page at CMU