
Stanford University
Professor
via Stanford University
Researcher · Founder · Academic
Co-founder at Humans&
Professor of Psychology and of Computer Science at Stanford University
Goodman is known for formal models of human cognition, especially probabilistic approaches to language, learning, and reasoning. His research helped establish probabilistic programming as a way to express cognitive models and has influenced work on how AI systems can represent uncertainty, infer intent, and reason about other agents.
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