George A. Miller was born in 1920, in Charleston, West Virginia. He received a B.A. degree from the University of Alabama in 1940 and a Ph.D. in Psychology from Harvard University in 1946.
Dr. Miller is considered one of the fathers of modern cognitive psychology. In 1960, Miller was co-founder of the Harvard Center for Cognitive Studies, an outgrowth of his work on psycholinguistics and cognitive psychology. In 1962, he was elected to the National Academy of Science. After making a move to the The Rockefeller University in New York in 1967, where he became a Professor of Experimental Psychology, he was elected President of the American Psychological Association in 1969.
Dr. Miller authored a number of highly influential texts, and is currently the architect behind WordNet, a lexical database that is widely used by computational linguists as part of natural language processing systems. Dr. Miller was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1991.
Information as of 1991