William J. Clancey is a cognitive scientist and author of the book Situated Cognition, a major contribution to the development of embodied embedded cognition

Embodied Embedded Cognition

Embodied Embedded Cognition is a philosophical theoretical position in cognitive science, closely related to situated cognition, embodied cognition, embodied cognitive science and dynamical systems theory. The theory states that intelligent behaviour emerges out of the interplay between brain,...

 a recent alternative to the previously dominant cognitivist

Cognitivism (psychology)

In psychology, cognitivism is a theoretical framework for understanding the mind that came into usage in the 1950s. The movement was a response to behaviorism, which cognitivists said neglected to explain cognition...

 paradigm in cognitive science

Cognitive science

Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary scientific study of mind and its processes. It examines what cognition is, what it does and how it works. It includes research on how information is processed , represented, and transformed in behaviour, nervous system or machine...

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Clancey is a Senior Research Scientist in the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, and on IPA to NASA's Ames Research Center focused on human-centered computing.

History

1974: Graduated Summa Cum Laude in Mathematical Sciences from Rice University in 1974

1975: expert systems research at Stanford's Knowledge Systems Lab and MYCIN

Mycin

In artificial intelligence, MYCIN was an early expert system designed to identify bacteria causing severe infections, such as bacteremia and meningitis, and to recommend antibiotics, with the dosage adjusted for patient's body weight — the name derived from the antibiotics themselves, as many...

1979: Ph.D. in Computer Science at Stanford University in 1979

1988 – 1997: Institute for Research on Learning in Menlo Park, California

Works

• Knowledge-Based Tutoring (1987)
• Contemplating Minds: A Forum for Artificial Intelligence (1994, with S. Smoliar and M. Stefik)
• Foundational Issues in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science: Impasse and Solution (1995)
• Situated Cognition: On Human Knowledge and Computer Representations (1997)
• Conceptual Coordination: How the Mind Orders Experience In Time (1999)
• Conceptual Coordination Bridges Information Processing and NeuroPhysiology (2000)
• Field Science Ethnography: Methods for Systematic Observation on an Arctic Expedition (2001)
• Simulating Activities: Relating Motives, Deliberation, and Attentive Coordination (2002)
• Observations of Work Practices in Natural Settings (2004)
• ... and dozens of short papers

External links

• http://bill.clancey.name/ website