John Amsden Starkweather

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John Amsden Starkweather
Born	(1925-08-30)August 30, 1925 Detroit, Michigan, United States of America
Died	March 10, 2001(2001-03-10) (aged 75) San Rafael, California
Alma mater	Yale, B.A. in Art, 1950; Northwestern, Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, 1955
Known for	PILOT programming language
Awards	Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics
Scientific career
Fields	Psychology
Institutions	University of California, San Francisco
Doctoral advisor	Carl Porter Duncan
Doctoral students	Paul Ekman, Gio Wiederhold

John Amsden Starkweather (August 30, 1925 – March 10, 2001) was an American Professor of Medical Psychology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Starkweather was a clinical psychologist and a valued teacher by generations of clinical psychology interns and graduate students at UCSF. He was a pioneer in taking a psychologist's view of the emerging computer field and incorporating concepts as well as numbers to language processing.