Brian Cantwell Smith was a Canadian-American philosopher and cognitive scientist whose work spanned cognitive science, computer science, information science and philosophy. He is known for introducing the concept of reflective programming, or computational reflection, in programming languages, and for influential contributions to the philosophy of computing and the foundations of artificial intelligence. He was a founder of the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University and served as principal scientist at Xerox PARC in the 1980s before holding faculty positions at Indiana University, Duke University and the University of Toronto. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Brian Cantwell Smith was a Canadian-American philosopher and cognitive scientist whose work spanned cognitive science, computer science, information science and philosophy. He is known for introducing the concept of reflective programming, or computational reflection, in programming languages, and for influential contributions to the philosophy of computing and the foundations of artificial intelligence. He was a founder of the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University and served as principal scientist at Xerox PARC in the 1980s before holding faculty positions at Indiana University, Duke University and the University of Toronto.
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November 29, 1950
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September 6, 2025
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