Gary Marcus
Gary Marcus | |
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Marcus in 2022 | |
| Born | Gary Fred Marcus 1970 (age 54–55) |
| Education | Center for Talented Youth |
| Alma mater | Hampshire College (BS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS, PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence |
| Institutions | New York University |
| Thesis | On rules and exceptions : an investigation of inflectional morphology (1993) |
| Doctoral advisor | Steven Pinker |
| Website | garymarcus |
Gary Fred Marcus (born 1970) is an American psychologist, cognitive scientist, and author, known for his research on the intersection of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence (AI).
Marcus is professor emeritus of psychology and neural science at New York University. In 2014 he founded Geometric Intelligence, a machine learning company later acquired by Uber.
His books include The Algebraic Mind, Kluge, The Birth of the Mind, and the New York Times Bestseller Guitar Zero.