Jeffrey Elman
Jeffrey Elman · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Cognitive scientist who pioneered connectionist recurrent-network models of language.
1948 — 2018, San Diego, California, United States
United States
Jeffrey Elman is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Cognitive scientist who pioneered connectionist recurrent-network models of language.
Elman was a cognitive scientist at UC San Diego who in 1990 introduced the simple recurrent network (the 'Elman network'), a foundational connectionist model of how language and sequences unfold over time, and co-authored the influential book Rethinking Innateness. His work shaped modern computational approaches to language and neural networks. Widely available biographies document his scientific career but do not record a Jewish identity; he appears on a subject roster of Jews in linguistics.
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Cognitive scientist who pioneered connectionist recurrent-network models of language.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics
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