Wayne Wickelgren

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Wayne Allen Wickelgren
Personal details
Born(1938-06-04)June 4, 1938
Hammond, Indiana, U.S.
Died(2005-11-02)November 2, 2005 (aged 67)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Spouse
Barbara Gordon-Lickey
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(m. 1962⁠–⁠1972)​
Children5
Education Harvard University (BA)
University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D.)

Wayne Allen Wickelgren was a professor of psychology at Columbia University.

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Early life

Wickelgren was born on June 4, 1938, to Herman and Alma Larson Wickelgren. He graduated from Hammond High School. [1]

Education

Wickelgren attended Harvard University, graduating summa cum laude with the Class of 1960. He studied social relations. He received a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1962. [2]

Career

In 1962, Wickelgren started as an assistant professor in the Psychology department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [3] While there, he rose to full Professor and researched problem-solving, learning, and language. [4]

In 1969, he started as a professor of psychology at the University of Oregon where he worked until 1987. [5] From 1987 until his death in 2005, he was an Adjunct Research Scientist at Columbia University. [6]

Wicklegren's work was used by James McClelland and David Rumelhart to develop the Wickelphone which is a sequence of 3 letters or symbols used together in a word. [7]

He was a member of the International Neural Network Society, the Society for Neuroscience, the Psychonomic Society, the Cognitive Science Society, and the Society for Mathematical Psychology.[ citation needed ]

Books

Personal life

In 1962, Wickelgren married Barbara Gordon-Lickey. They had 2 children: Ingrid Wickelgren (1967) and lawyer Abraham Wickelgren (1969). The couple divorced in 1972. With partner Norma Graham, he had 3 children: physicist Peter W. Graham (1980), mathematician Kirsten Wickelgren (1981), and Jeanette Wickelgren (1985). Wickelgren was survived by his partner Norma Graham. [13]

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References

  1. ↑ Harvard Alumni Association Class Report Office (March 14, 2018). "Wayne Allen Wickelgren". Harvard. Retrieved June 19, 2024.
  2. ↑ Wickelgren, Wayne (March 14, 2018). "Wayne Wickelgren". Columbia. Retrieved June 19, 2024.
  3. ↑ Wickelgren, Wayne (March 14, 2018). "Wayne Wickelgren". Columbia. Retrieved June 19, 2024.
  4. ↑ Harvard Alumni Association Class Report Office (March 14, 2018). "Wayne Allen Wickelgren". Harvard. Retrieved June 19, 2024.
  5. ↑ Wickelgren, Wayne (March 14, 2018). "Wayne Wickelgren". Columbia. Retrieved June 19, 2024.
  6. ↑ Harvard Alumni Association Class Report Office (March 14, 2018). "Wayne Allen Wickelgren". Harvard. Retrieved June 19, 2024.
  7. ↑ Steven Pinker, A. Prince (1989), "Language and connectionism" , Connections and symbols, MIT Press, p.  89, ISBN   978-0-262-66064-8
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