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THE
DISRESPECTED STUDENT — OR — THE NEED FOR THE VIRTUAL UNIVERSITY
Introduction
by Roger Schank is a computer scientist and cognitive psychologist who has worked in the AI field for twenty-five years. Like Marvin Minsky, he takes the strong AI view, but rather than trying to build an intelligent machine he wants to deconstruct the human mind. He wants to know, in particular, how natural language — one's mother tongue — is processed, how memory works, and how learning occurs. Schank thinks of the human mind as a learning device, and he thinks that it is being taught in the wrong way. He is something of a gadfly; he deplores the curriculum-based, drill-oriented methods in today's schools, and his most recent contributions have been in the area of education, looking at ways to use computers to enhance the learning process. — JB ROGER
SCHANK, a leading Artificial Intelligence researcher, is the Chairman and
CTO for Cognitive Arts and
has been the Director of the Institute
for the Learning Sciences since its founding in 1989. He holds three faculty
appointments at Northwestern University as John Evans Professor of Computer Science,
Education, and Psychology. Previously, he was Professor of Computer Science and
Psychology at Yale University and Director of the Yale Artificial Intelligence
Project. His books include: Dynamic Memory: A Theory Of Learning In Computers
And People , Tell Me A Story: A New Look At Real And Artificial Memory, The Connoisseur's
Guide To The Mind, And Engines For Education and Virtual Learning: A Revolutionary
Approach To Building A Highly Skilled Workforce.
"Information
is Surprises" — Roger Schank in The Third Culture— Comments
by Murray Gell-Mann, Marvin Minsky, Francisco Varela, Steven Pinker, W. Daniel
Hillis, and Daniel C. Dennett
To The Disrepected Student..... |
