David Rumelhart

David E. Rumelhart
David Rumelhart at the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) in Seattle on 8 July 1991
Born	June 12, 1942 Wessington Springs, South Dakota
Died	March 13, 2011(2011-03-13) (aged 68) Chelsea, Michigan
Nationality	American
Known for	Connectionism Artificial neural network modeling Deep Learning Applications of backpropagation
Awards	MacArthur Fellowship (July 1987) National Academy of Sciences Warren Medal of the Society of Experimental Psychologists APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award (2002)
Scientific career
Fields	Psychology
Institutions	Stanford University University of California, San Diego
Thesis	The Effects of Interpresentation Intervals on Performance in a Continuous Paired-Associate Task (1967)
Doctoral advisor	William Kaye Estes
Doctoral students	Michael I. Jordan

David Everett Rumelhart (June 12, 1942 – March 13, 2011)^[1] was an American psychologist who made many contributions to the formal analysis of human cognition, working primarily within the frameworks of mathematical psychology, symbolic artificial intelligence, and parallel distributed processing. He also admired formal linguistic approaches to cognition, and explored the possibility of formulating a formal grammar to capture the structure of stories.