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The David E. Rumelhart Prize is awarded annually to an individual or collaborative team making a significant contemporary contribution to the theoretical foundations of human cognition. Contributions may be formal in nature: mathematical modeling of human cognitive processes, formal analysis of language and other products of human cognitive activity, and computational analyses of human cognition using symbolic or non-symbolic frameworks all fall within the scope of the award.
The David E. Rumelhart Prize is funded by the Robert J. Glushko and Pamela Samuelson Foundation. Robert J. Glushko received a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of California, San Diego in 1979 under Rumelhart’s supervision. He is an Adjunct Full Professor at the School of Information (I-School) at the University of California, Berkeley.
The prize consists of a hand-crafted, custom bronze medal, a certificate, a citation of the awardee’s contribution, and a monetary award of $100,000.
The 2012 David E. Rumelhart Prize Recipient
The recipient of the twelfth David E. Rumelhart Prize is Peter Dayan, a pre-eminent researcher in Computational Neuroscience with a primary focus on the application of theoretical computational and mathematical methods to the understanding of neural systems. Dayan is Professor of Computational Neuroscience at University College London and the Director of its Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit. Dayan has a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) degree in Mathematics from Cambridge University and a PhD degree in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh.
