John Amsden Starkweather
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John Amsden Starkweather (August 30, 1925 – March 10, 2001) was an American Professor of Medical Psychology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Starkweather was a clinical psychologist and a valued teacher by generations of clinical psychology interns and graduate students at UCSF. He was a pioneer in taking a psychologist's view of the emerging computer field and incorporating concepts as well as numbers to language processing.
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John Amsden Starkweather | |
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Born | (1925-08-30)August 30, 1925 |
Died | March 10, 2001(2001-03-10) (aged 75) |
Alma mater | Yale, B.A. in Art, 1950; Northwestern, Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, 1955 |
Known for | PILOT programming language |
Awards | Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Psychology |
Institutions | University of California, San Francisco |
Doctoral advisor | Carl Porter Duncan |
Doctoral students | Paul Ekman, Gio Wiederhold |
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