| 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 |
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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.
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