Richard C. Atkinson

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Richard C. Atkinson

Richard Chatham Atkinson (born March 19, 1929 in Oak Park , Illinois ) is an American psychologist . He was Professor and Chancellor of the University of California, San Diego and then President of the University of California .

Life

Atkinson began as a professor of psychology at Stanford University . There he worked with Patrick Suppes using computers to teach math and reading to children in Palo Alto elementary schools . This resulted in the Education Program for Gifted Youth .

Atkinson then left the research career and turned to the administrative duties of a university. He became Director of the National Science Foundation and Registrar of the University of California, San Diego. From 1995 to 2003 he was President of the University of California System, succeeding Jack Peltason .

Atkinson was elected to the National Academy of Sciences , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the Institute of Medicine , the National Academy of Education, and the American Philosophical Society . In his honor, which is Mount Atkinson named in Antarctica.

Fonts

  • RC Atkinson, "Computerized Instruction and the Learning Process," American Psychologist , Vol. 23, 1968, pp. 225-239.
  • RC Atkinson and HA Wilson, “Computer ‐ Assisted Instruction,” in RC Atkinson and HA Wilson, eds., Computer ‐ Assisted Instruction: A Book of Readings, Academic Press, New York, 1969.
  • RC Atkinson, “Instruction in Initial Reading Under Computer Control: The Stanford Project,” Educational Data Processing, Vol. 4, no. 4, 1967, pp. 175-192.

literature

  • “Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards for 1977,” American Psychologist, January 1978, pp. 49-55.
  • William J. McGill, "Richard C. Atkinson: President-Elect of AAAS," Science, Vol. 241, July 29, 1988, pp. 519-520.
  • Richard C. Atkinson, "The Golden Fleece, Science Education, and US Science Policy," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 143, No, 3, September 1999, pp. 407-417.
  • “Developing High-Technology Communities: San Diego,” report by Innovation Associates, Inc., for the US Small Business Administration, March 2000.
  • Patricia A. Pelfrey, A Brief History of the University of California, Second Edition, (Center for Studies in Higher Education and University of California Press, 2004), pp. 78-89.
  • David S. Saxon, “Foreword,” The Pursuit of Knowledge: Speeches and Papers of Richard C. Atkinson, ed. Patricia A. Pelfrey (University of California Press, 2007), pp. ix-xi
  • Raymond Smilor, Niall O'Donnell, Gregory Stein and Robert S. Welborn, III, “The Research University and the Development of High-Technology Centers in the United States,” Economic Development Quarterly, Vol. 21, no. 3, August 2007, pp. 203-222.

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personal data
SURNAME Atkinson, Richard C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Atkinson, Richard Chatham (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Oak Park , Illinois