Roger Schank

Roger Schank
Roger Schank
Born	March 12, 1946; New York City, U.S.
Died	January 29, 2023 (aged 76); Shelburne, Vermont, U.S.
Alma mater	Carnegie Mellon University; University of Texas;
Spouses	Diane Levine (div. 1998); Annie Payeur (m. c. 1999);
Children	2
	Scientific career
Institutions	Stanford University; Yale University; Carnegie Mellon University; Trump University;
Thesis	A Conceptual Dependency Representation for a Computer-Oriented Semantics (1969)
Doctoral advisor	Jacob L. Mey
Doctoral students	Jaime Carbonell; Lawrence Hunter; Wendy Lehnert; Robert Wilensky;
Website	rogerschank.com

Roger Carl Schank (March 12, 1946 – January 29, 2023) was an American artificial intelligence theorist, cognitive psychologist, learning scientist, educational reformer, and entrepreneur. Beginning in the late 1960s, he pioneered conceptual dependency theory (within the context of natural language understanding) and case-based reasoning, both of which challenged cognitivist views of memory and reasoning. He began his career teaching at Yale University and Stanford University. 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 (ILS) at Northwestern University in Chicago.

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