Background
Sun, Ron was born on October 8, 1960 in Shanghai.
(This book is a condensation of a large body of work conce...)
This book is a condensation of a large body of work concerning human learning carried out over a period of more than five years by Dr. Sun and his collaborators. In a nutshell, this work is concerned with a broad framework for studying human cognition based on a new approach that is characterized by its focus on the dichotomy of, and the interaction between, explicit and implicit cognition and a computational model that implements this framework. In this work, a broad, generic computational model was developed that instantiates Dr. Sun's framework and enables the testing of his theoretical approach in a variety of ways. With this model, simulation results were matched with data of human cognition in a variety of different domains. Formal (mathematical and computational) analyses were also carried out to further explore the model and its numerous implementational details. Furthermore, this book addresses some of the most significant theoretical issues, such as symbol grounding, intentionality, social cognition, consciousness, and other theoretical issues in relation to the framework. The general framework and the model developed generate interesting insights into these theoretical issues.
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(Concerned with understanding and modeling commonsense rea...)
Concerned with understanding and modeling commonsense reasoning with a combination of rules and similarities under a connectionist rubric. Examines the areas of reasoning, connectionist models, inheritance, causality, rule-based systems and similarity-based reasoning. Introduces a new structure, a novel connectionist architecture and a set of fresh ideas leading to new applications.
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computer and cognitive scientist
Sun, Ron was born on October 8, 1960 in Shanghai.
Bachelor of Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, 1983. Master of Science, Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York, 1986. Doctor of Philosophy, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1991.
Research engineer SRIEA, 1983-1985. Assistant professor computer science, psychology University Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 1992-1998, associate professor computer science, psychology, 1998-1999. Associate professor computer engineering and science University Missouri, Columbia, 1999—2002, James C. Dowell professor computer engineering and science, 2002—2003.
Professor cognitive science Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, since 2003. Speaker in field.
(Concerned with understanding and modeling commonsense rea...)
(This book is a condensation of a large body of work conce...)
Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (senior member), Cognitive Science Society (member governing board, David Marr award 1991), American Association Artificial Intelligence, International Neural Network Society (senior member, board governors), Upsilon Pi Epsilon.