Brian Cantwell Smith
Brian Cantwell Smith | |
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Alma mater | Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Stanford University |
Thesis | Procedural Reflection in Programming Languages (vol. 1) (1982) |
Doctoral advisor | Peter Szolovits |
Brian Cantwell Smith is a philosopher and cognitive scientist working in the fields of
His research has focused on the foundations and philosophy of computing, both in the practice and theory of computer science, and in the use of computational metaphors in other fields, such as philosophy, cognitive science, physics, and art. He is currently professor of information, computer science, and philosophy at University of Toronto.
Career
Smith received his BS, MS and PhD degrees from the
He was a founder of the
Smith is the author of more than 35 articles and three books,[citation needed]. One of his books is called On the Origin of Objects, MIT Press, 1996. He had promised for several years that he is about to publish a seven-volume series entitled The Age of Significance: An Essay on the Origins of Computation and Intentionality but so far only a forty-three page introduction has been released.
Smith was Dean of the University of Toronto Faculty of Information from 2003โ2008.
Smith previously held a Canada Research Chair in the Foundations of Information, and is cross-appointed as Professor in the departments of Philosophy and Computer Science and in the Program in Communication, Culture and Technology at University of Toronto at Mississauga.
Personal life
His father was the celebrated scholar of religion Wilfred Cantwell Smith.
External links
References
- ^ Brian Cantwell Smith, Procedural Reflection in Programming Languages, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, PhD Thesis, 1982.
- ^ Brian C. Smith, Reflection and semantics in a procedural language Archived 2015-12-13 at the Wayback Machine. Technical Report MIT-LCS-TR-272, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., January 1982.