Rumelhart Prize

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The David E. Rumelhart Prize for Contributions to the Theoretical Foundations of Human Cognition is an award similar to the Turing Award, except that it is specific to Cognitive Science, and the award has only been running since 2001. The award is presented every year at the Cognitive Science Society meeting, where the recipient gives an hour-long speech and is given his check for $100,000, and then the next year's award winner is announced. The prize is named after the cognitive scientist David E. Rumelhart.

The Rumelhart Prize committee is actually totally independent of the Cognitive Science Society; it just takes advantage of the large interested audience for the awards. So far all the laureates have been male, but it is not a requirement of the prize.

Recipients

• Geoffrey E. Hinton 2001 (Edinburgh)
• Richard M. Shiffrin 2002 (Fairfax, VA)
• Aravind Joshi 2003 (Boston)
• John Anderson 2004 (Chicago)
• Paul Smolensky 2005 (Stresa)
• Roger Shepard 2006 (Vancouver)
• Jeffrey L. Elman 2007 (Nashville)
• Shimon Ullman 2008 (Washington, D.C.)

See also

• Turing Award which includes other famous cognitive science / AI people.
• List of awards
• Prizes named after people

External links

• Rumelhart Prize Website

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