Rumelhart Prize (cognitive science)
Jewish recipients of the Rumelhart Prize (cognitive science) documented in the ThankJews directory. Jews are about 46% of all recipients — while making up roughly 0.2% of the world's population.
12 documented recipients
Richard Shiffrin1942
Cognitive psychologist known for the Atkinson-Shiffrin memory model
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Paul Smolensky1955
Cognitive scientist, co-founder of Optimality Theory and connectionist linguistics.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics
Jeffrey Elman1948
Cognitive scientist who pioneered connectionist recurrent-network models of language.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics
Shimon Ullman2008
Israeli pioneer of computational vision (Weizmann Institute); Rumelhart Prize (2008)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Rumelhart Prize
Judea Pearl2011
Artificial Intelligence and Bayesian Networks
Source: Turing Award 2011
Peter Dayan2012
Theoretical neuroscientist of dopamine reward learning; Rumelhart Prize (2012)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Rumelhart Prize
Ray Jackendoff1945
Linguist known for conceptual semantics within generative grammar.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics
Lila Gleitman1929
Psycholinguist known for research on how children acquire word meaning.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics
Michael Tanenhaus
Psychologist (psycholinguistics)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Susan Goldin-Meadow1949
Psychologist known for research on gesture and its role in language development.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics
Alison Gopnik1955
Developmental psychologist known for research on children's learning and cognition
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Nora Newcombe1951
Developmental psychologist known for research on spatial cognition
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology