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Joshua B. Tenenbaum
Whitehead Professor of Computational Cognitive Science at MIT
Tenenbaum is a professor of computational cognitive science at MIT, where his lab studies how humans learn so much from so little using probabilistic and Bayesian program-induction models. His work on intuitive physics, concept learning, and the "child as scientist" has been deeply influential across cognitive science and AI.
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Whitehead Professor of Computational Cognitive ScienceMIT
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Last editorial review: August 13, 2026
