Roger Schank

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Roger C. Schank (* 1946 ) is an American cognitive scientist , computer scientist and educator.

Life

Schank received his PhD in Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin with Jacob Mey (A Conceptual Dependency Representation for a Computer-Oriented Semantics) in 1969 , was Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science at Stanford University, and was Professor of Computer Science and Psychology from 1974 to 1989 at Yale University , where he led the artificial intelligence project there. He was Chief Education Officer on Carnegie Mellon University's West Coast campus , where he founded the Center for the Learning Sciences. Afterwards he was professor of computer science, education and psychology at Northwestern University until his retirement , where he founded the Institute for the Learning Sciences (ILS) in 1989 .

He was visiting professor at the University of Paris VII.

In the 1970s and 1980s he made innovative contributions to the research of artificial intelligence , in particular with his concepts of Case-Based Reasoning , Script and Dynamic Memory . Traditional approaches in cognitive research were based on a rule-based manipulation of symbols . Schank, on the other hand, postulated a memory model that is organized in the form of meaningful episodes. Learning and problem solving can be mapped in this model as processes that use exemplary cases stored in the memory.

In 1994 Schank founded the company Cognitive Arts, which develops multimedia applications for computer-aided education. In 2002, Socratic Arts was founded, an e-learning provider. He has also written numerous books on the subject of learning, language, artificial intelligence, training, e-learning, etc.

He founded the Cognitive Science Society and co-founded the cognitive science journal Journal of Cognitive Science .

Publications (selection)

Books:

  • Editor: Computer models of thought and language , Freeman, San Francisco 1973
  • Conceptual information processing , North Holland 1975 (with contributions from Neil Goldman)
  • with Robert P. Abelson: Scripts, Plans, Goals, and Understanding: An Inquiry Into Human Knowledge Structures , Erlbaum 1977
  • Editor: Inside computer understanding: five programs, plus miniatures , Erlbaum 1981
  • Reading and understanding: teaching from the perspective of artificial intelligence , Erlbaum 1982
  • Dynamic memory: a theory of reminding and learning in computers and people , Cambridge UP 1982
  • with Peter Childers: The Cognitive Computer. On Language, Learning and Artificial Intelligence , 1984
  • Explanation patterns: understanding mechanically and creatively , Erlbaum 1986
  • with Christopher Riesbeck: Inside-case based reasoning , Erlbaum 1989
  • The Connoisseur's Guide to the Mind: How We Think, How We Learn, and What It Means to Be Intelligent , 1991
  • Tell me a story: narrative and intelligence , Northwestern University Press 1995
  • with Chip Cleary: Engines for Education , Erlbaum 1995
  • Virtual Learning: A Revolutionary Approach to Building a Highly Skilled Workforce , McGraw Hill 1997
  • Dynamic memory revisited , Cambridge Univ. Press, 1999. ISBN 0-521-63398-2 .
  • Designing world class e-learning. How IBM, GE, Harvard Business School, And Columbia University Are Succeeding At E-Learning , McGraw Hill 2001
  • Designing world-class e-learning: how IBM, GE, Harvard Business School, and Columbia University are succeeding at e-learning . New York [u. a.]: McGraw-Hill, 2002. ISBN 0-07-137772-7 .
  • Making minds less well educated than our own . Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004. ISBN 0-8058-4877-0 .
  • Lessons in Learning, e-Learning, and Training: Perspectives and Guidance for the Enlightened Trainer, 2005
  • with Dimitris Lyras, Elliot Soloway: The Future of Decision making. How Revolutionary Software Can Improve the Ability to Decide , Palgrave Macmillan 2010
  • Teaching Minds: How cognitive science can save our schools , Teacher's College Press 2011
  • Make School Meaningful - And Fun! , 2015

In German translation

  • Schank, Roger; Childers, Peter: The future of artificial intelligence: Opportunities u. Risks . Cologne: DuMont, 1986. ISBN 3-7701-1830-8 .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Roger Schank in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
personal data
SURNAME Bar, Roger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schank, Roger C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cognitive scientist and computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1946