Tom Griffiths (cognitive scientist)
Tom Griffiths | |
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| Born | London, England |
| Alma mater | University of Western Australia Stanford University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psychology Cognitive science |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley Princeton University |
| Thesis | Causes, coincidences, and theories (2005) |
| Doctoral advisor | Joshua Tenenbaum |
Thomas L. Griffiths (born circa 1978) is an Australian academic who is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Information Technology, Consciousness, and Culture at Princeton University. He studies human decision-making and its connection to problem-solving methods in computation. His book with Brian Christian, Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions, was named one of the "Best Books of 2016" by MIT Technology Review.