John Robert Anderson

John Robert Anderson (born 1947 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a professor of psychology and computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. He is widely known for his cognitive architecture ACT-R (Anderson, 1993). He has published many papers on cognitive psychology, served as present of the Cognitive Science Society, and received many scientific awards, including one from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences.

Anderson studied psychology at the University of British Columbia and Stanford from 1964 to 1974. He went on teaching at Yale. Since 1978, he has worked as a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. From 1988 to 1989, he was president of the Cognitive Science Society. In 2004 he won the David E. Rumelhart Prize for Contributions to the Formal Analysis of Human Cognition.