Paul Smolensky, a professor of Cognitive Science at the Johns Hopkins University. Smolensky along with Alan Prince developed Optimality Theory, a controversial but influential theory about the organization of phonology. He is a member of the Center for Language and Speech Processing.
Smolensky is the recipient of the 2005 David E. Rumelhart Prize (named after David Rumelhart ) for his pursuit of the ICS Architecture, a model of cognition that aims to unify Connectionism and symbolism, where the symbolic representations and operations are manifested as abstractions on the underlying connectionist networks.
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