Paul Smolensky
Paul Smolensky · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Cognitive scientist, co-founder of Optimality Theory and connectionist linguistics.
1955
United States
Paul Smolensky is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Cognitive scientist, co-founder of Optimality Theory and connectionist linguistics.
Smolensky is a cognitive scientist at Johns Hopkins University and Microsoft Research who, with Alan Prince, developed Optimality Theory (1993), a framework that reshaped phonology and spread across linguistics, and who pioneered tensor-product connectionist models of cognition. His religious background is not documented in mainstream biographies; he appears in Jinfo's index of Jewish linguists.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics
Cognitive scientist, co-founder of Optimality Theory and connectionist linguistics.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics
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