James McClelland (psychologist)
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born Dec 1 1948 (age 69)</p>
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formerly chair of the Psych Dept.</p>
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statist learning ana PDP</p>
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applying connectionist model or NNs.</p>
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1980s incr in popularity of NNs.</p>
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? from Penn. BA in Psych from Columbia in 1970 and a PhD in Cog Psych from Penn in 1975.</p>
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Marr. Heidi Feldman May 6, 1978 and has two daughters. (one in Ojai with ? Jay's mother or father)</p>
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1986: PDP book with David Rumelhart.</p>
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Debate with Steve Pnnk and Alan Prince in re:necessity of a language specific learning module.</p>
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2006 to Stanford from CMU. and conulting prof on NARU aphasia unit at U Manchester.</p>
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