Kevin J. Gilmartin

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Kevin J. Gilmartin,

an American psychologist and CIO at American Institutes for Research [1]. He holds a Ph.D. in 1974 from Carnegie Mellon University with advisor Herbert Simon. Gilmartin and Simon extended Simon’s and Barenfeld’s program Perceiver, which was able to duplicate the eye movements of a chess expert by adhering to the simple relations of attack and defense [2] into a system called MAPP (Memory-aided Pattern Perceiver) which uses the learning mechanism of EPAM, and reinforced the chunking hypothesis by subjecting MAPP to the same board reconstruction experiment that the human players faced [3]. By determining the patterns present on the board, and restricted to the same short-term memory constraints as humans [4], MAPP was able to reconstruct positions with 73% accuracy [5] [6].

Selected Publications#

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• Herbert Simon, Kevin J. Gilmartin (1973). A Simulation of Memory for Chess Positions. Cognitive Psychology, Vol. 5, No. 1, reprinted in Herbert Simon (1979). Models of Thought, Yale University Press
• Kevin J. Gilmartin (1979). Social indicators: an annotated bibliography of current literature. Garland Science
• Kevin J. Gilmartin (1984). Measuring the Viability of Colleges: Who Is Really in Distress? American Educational Research Journal, Vol. 21, No. 1

External Links#

• Kevin Gilmartin, Vice President & Chief Information Officer, American Institute-Research | Spoke

References#

1. ↑ Kevin Gilmartin, Vice President & Chief Information Officer, American Institute-Research | Spoke
2. ↑ Herbert Simon, Michael Barenfeld (1969). Information-processing analysis of perceptual processes in problem solving. Psychological Review, Vol. 76, No. 5
3. ↑ William Chase, Herbert Simon (1973). Perception in chess. Cognitive Psychology, Vol. 4, No. 1
4. ↑ George Armitage Miller (1956). The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two. Psychological Review, Vol. 101, No. 2, pdf
5. ↑ Herbert Simon, Kevin J. Gilmartin (1973). A Simulation of Memory for Chess Positions. Cognitive Psychology, Vol. 5, No. 1
6. ↑ Michael George, Jonathan Schaeffer (1990). Chunking for Experience. ICCA Journal, Vol. 13, No. 3, pdf
7. ↑ ICGA Reference Database

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