Education and Career
Anderson obtained a B.A. from the University of British Columbia in 1968, and a Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford in 1972. Gordon Bower was his doctoral advisor. He became faculty at Yale in 1976. Since 1978, he has worked as a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. From 1988 to 1989, he was also president of the Cognitive Science Society.
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