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Brian Cantwell Smith

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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. 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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Birth Year
1950 1
Birth Date
1950-11-29 1
Death Year
2025 1
Death Date
2025-09-06 1
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1. Wikipedia: Brian Cantwell Smith
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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.
  • Infobox, Born
    November 29, 1950
  • Infobox, Died
    September 6, 2025
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