Roger Carl Schank was an American artificial intelligence theorist, cognitive psychologist, learning scientist, educational reformer, and entrepreneur.
15 Facts About Roger Schank
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Roger Schank began his career teaching at Yale University and Stanford University.
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In 1989, Schank was granted $30 million in a ten-year commitment to his research and development by Andersen Consulting, through which he founded the Institute for the Learning Sciences at Northwestern University in Chicago.
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Roger Schank was born in Manhattan, New York, in 1946, and he attended Stuyvesant High School.
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In 1981, Roger Schank became Chairman of Computer Science at Yale and director of the Yale Artificial Intelligence Project.
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In 1989, Roger Schank was granted $30 million in a ten-year commitment to his research and development by Andersen Consulting, allowing him to leave Yale and set up the Institute for the Learning Sciences at Northwestern University in Chicago, bringing along 25 of his Yale colleagues.
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When Carnegie Mellon University's Silicon Valley campus was established in 2002, Roger Schank came to serve as Chief Educational Officer at the institution.
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Roger Schank was a Founding Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 1990.
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Roger Schank resigned as chairman and chief executive in 1988 for personal reasons, but stayed as a board member and advisor.
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In 1994, Roger Schank founded Cognitive Arts Corporation to market the software developed at ILS, and led the company until it was sold in 2003.
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From 2005 to 2007, Roger Schank was the chief learning officer of Trump University.
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In 2008, Roger Schank built a story-centered curriculum at the Business Engineering School of La Salle International Graduate School of Ramon Llull University, Barcelona to teach MBA students to launch their own businesses or to go to work.
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In 2012, Roger Schank founded XTOL which "designs learn-by-doing experiential short courses for use by universities, corporations and professional organizations, as well as Master's programs in partnership with degree-granting universities around the world".
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Roger Schank believed that the educational system is fundamentally broken and that software will need to replace conventional teaching methods.
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In 1969 Roger Schank introduced the conceptual dependency theory for natural language understanding.