John Robert Anderson

Department of Psychology
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Telephone: (412) 268-2788
Facsimile: (412) 268-2844
E-Mail: ja+@cmu.edu

EDUCATION, PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE, & HONORS

1964-1968

University of British Columbia, B.A., 1968

1968

The Governor-General's Gold Medal (Head of graduating classes in Arts and Sciences, B.A. and B.Sc. degrees)

1968-1972

Stanford University, Ph.D., 1972

1972-1973

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Yale University

1973-1976

Junior Fellow, University of Michigan. Member of the Human Performance Center

1976-1977

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Yale University

1977-1978

Professor, Department of Psychology, Yale University

1978

American Psychological Association's Early Career Award

1978-present

Professor, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon

1981

Elected member of the Society of Experimental Psychologists

1983-present

Professor, Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon

1985

Walter VanDyke Bingham Professor of Cognitive Science

1988-1989

President, Cognitive Science Society

1989-1994

Research Scientist Award, NIMH

1994

American Psychological Association's Distinguished Scientific Career Award

1999

National Academy of Sciences

1999

Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

2000

University Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

2001

National Academy of Sciences, Psychology Section Chair

2002

Richard King Mellon Professor of Psychology and Computer Science

2004

The David E. Rumelhart Prize for Contributions to the Formal Analysis of Human Cognition

2005

Howard Crosby Warren Medal for outstanding achievement in Experimental Psychology in the United States and Canada, Society of Experimental Psychology

2006

Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science awarded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

2007

Elected to the American Philosophical Society

2011

Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science


RESEARCH INTERESTS

The following topics in Cognitive Psychology and Artificial Intelligence:



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

John Anderson received his B.A. from the University of British Columbia in 1968 and his Ph.D. from Stanford University 1972. He has been at Carnegie Mellon University since 1978 where he is the Richard King Mellon Professor of Psychology and Computer Science. He has served as president of the Cognitive Science Society, and has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. He is the current editor of Psychological Review. He has received numerous scientific awards including the American Psychological Association's Distinguished Scientific Career Award, the David E. Rumelhart Prize for Contributions to the Formal Analysis of Human Cognition, the inaugural Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science, and the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science.

He is known for developing ACT-R, which is the most widely used cognitive architecture in cognitive science. Anderson was also an early leader in research on intelligent tutoring systems. Computer systems based on his cognitive tutors currently teach mathematics to over 500,000 children in American schools. He has published a number of books including Human Associative Memory (1973 with Gordon Bower), Language, Memory, and Thought (1976), The Architecture of Cognition (1983), The Adaptive Character of Thought (1990), Rules of the Mind (1993), The Atomic Components of Thought (1998 with Christian Lebiere), and How Can the Human Mind Occur in the Physical Universe? (2007). His current research interest is focused on combining cognitive modeling and brain imaging to understand the processes of mathematical learning.





STUDENTS SUPERVISED

Ph.D.:
Stephen Blessing Gary Bradshaw
Raluca Budiu Dana Byrne
Jared Danker Scott Douglass
Renee Elio Jon Fincham
Kevin Gluck Glenn Gunzelmann
Lisa Haverty Bill Jones
Yvonne Kao Irving Katz
Claudius Kessler Ken Koedinger
Christian Lebiere Frank Lee
Matt Lewis Marsha Lovett
Michael Matessa Jean McKendree
Jungaa Moon Phil Pavlik
Peter Pirolli Brian Ross
Dario Salvucci Lael Schooler
Emile Servan-Schreiber Miriam Schustack
Kevin Singley Caitlin Tenison
Matt Walsh Quanfeng Wu

MS:
Miriam Bishay
David Chinn



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PERSONAL DATA

Born in Vancouver, Canada on August 27, 1947; United States citizen; Married to Lynne Reder, 1973; sons, John Frank Anderson, born 1980, Abraham Robert Anderson, born 1985.


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