هو أستاذ باحث في قسم علوم الكمبيوتر ومركز الأساسيات العصبية للإدراك بجامعة كارنيجي ميلون. حصل على درجة البكالوريوس في علوم الكمبيوتر من جامعة روتجرز في عام 1978 ، وحصل على درجة الماجستير والدكتوراه. في علوم الكمبيوتر في جامعة كارنيجي ميلون.


❰ له مجموعة من الإنجازات والمؤلفات أبرزها ❞ A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation ❝ الناشرين : ❞ شركة بنيامين / كامينغز للنشر ❝ ❱

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هو أستاذ باحث في قسم علوم الكمبيوتر ومركز الأساسيات العصبية للإدراك بجامعة كارنيجي ميلون. حصل على درجة البكالوريوس في علوم الكمبيوتر من جامعة روتجرز في عام 1978 ، وحصل على درجة الماجستير والدكتوراه. في علوم الكمبيوتر في جامعة كارنيجي ميلون.

Research
Touretzky's research interests lie in the fields of artificial intelligence, computational neuroscience, and learning. This includes machine learning and animal learning, and in particular neural representation of space in rodents (e.g., in the hippocampus) and in robots.[1] In 2006, he was recognized as a Distinguished Scientist by the Association for Computing Machinery.

Criticism of Scientology
Since the 1990s, Touretzky has worked to expose the actions of the Church of Scientology. He sees the actions of the organization as a threat to free speech, and he has taken a prominent part in Internet-based activism to oppose it, also appearing regularly as a critic in radio and print. He has also worked to expose what he sees as dangerous and potentially life-threatening treatments provided by Narconon, the Scientology-based drug rehabilitation program. He maintains a Web site named Stop Narconon,[3] which archives media articles critical of the program. Dr. Touretzky's research into Narconon was a primary source of information for a series of San Francisco Chronicle newspaper articles criticizing Narconon on June 9 and June 10, 2004 that ultimately led to the organization's program being rejected by the California school system in early 2005.[4]

Touretzky has undertaken extensive research into the secret upper levels of Scientology, and he has made this information available to the public on the OT III Scholarship Page (concerning Xenu) and the NOTs Scholars Page[1][5] (concerning the higher Operating Thetan levels). These pages, he states, are academic studies of Scientology's texts, and the proprietary materials are therefore legally available due to careful application of the academic fair use provisions of copyright law. The Church has failed in their attempts to have them removed, after repeatedly threatening Touretzky with lawsuits and filing complaints against him with Carnegie Mellon University.[8] Carnegie Mellon, in turn, has issued statements in support of Professor Touretzky, noting that his criticism of Scientology is a personal affair and not the opinion of the University itself.

Touretzky has been the object of public attacks by the Church of Scientology, including various "dead agent" campaigns against him. He has been accused of religious bigotry, racism, misogyny, misuse of government funds, support for terrorism, and collusion with the pharmaceutical industry, among other misdeeds.