David Marr (neuroscientist)
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David Courtenay Marr (19 January 1945 – 17 November 1980)[1] was a British neuroscientist and physiologist. Marr integrated results from psychology, artificial intelligence, and neurophysiology into new models of visual processing. His work was very influential in computational neuroscience and led to a resurgence of interest in the discipline.
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David C. Marr | |
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Born | (1945-01-19)19 January 1945 Woodford, London, UK |
Died | 17 November 1980(1980-11-17) (aged 35) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
Awards | IJCAI Computers and Thought Award |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computational neuroscience Artificial intelligence Psychology |
Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Thesis | A general theory for cerebral cortex (1972) |
Doctoral advisor | Giles Brindley |
Doctoral students | Shimon Ullman Eric Grimson John M. Hollerbach |
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