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'''Kevin J. Gilmartin''',<br/>
an American [[:Category:Psychologist|psychologist]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_information_officer CIO] at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Institutes_for_Research American Institutes for Research] <ref>[http://www.spoke.com/people/kevin-gilmartin-3e1429c09e597c100375ba6c Kevin Gilmartin, Vice President & Chief Information Officer, American Institute-Research | Spoke]</ref>.
He holds a Ph.D. in 1974 from [[Carnegie Mellon University]] with advisor [[Herbert Simon]]. Gilmartin and Simon extended Simon's and [[Michael Barenfeld|Barenfeld's]] program [[Perceiver]],
which was able to duplicate the [[Eye Movements|eye movements]] of a chess expert by adhering to the simple relations of attack and defense <ref>[[Herbert Simon]], [[Michael Barenfeld]] ('''1969'''). ''[http://psycnet.apa.org/record/1970-01781-001 Information-processing analysis of perceptual processes in problem solving]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_Review Psychological Review], Vol. 76, No. 5</ref> into a system called [[MAPP]] (Memory-aided Pattern Perceiver) which uses the [[Learning|learning]] mechanism of [[EPAM]], and reinforced the [[Chunking|chunking]] hypothesis by subjecting MAPP to the [[William Chase#Perception|same board reconstruction experiment]] that the human players faced <ref>[[William Chase]], [[Herbert Simon]] ('''1973'''). ''[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0010028573900042 Perception in chess]''. [http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622807/description#description Cognitive Psychology], Vol. 4, No. 1</ref>.
By determining the patterns present on the board, and restricted to the same short-term memory constraints as humans <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Armitage_Miller George Armitage Miller] ('''1956'''). ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Plus_or_Minus_Two The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_Review Psychological Review], Vol. 101, No. 2, [http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/users/peterson/psy430s2001/Miller%20GA%20Magical%20Seven%20Psych%20Review%201955.pdf pdf]</ref>, MAPP was able to reconstruct positions with 73% accuracy <ref>[[Herbert Simon]], [[Kevin J. Gilmartin]] ('''1973'''). ''[https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1974-08458-001 A Simulation of Memory for Chess Positions]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_Psychology_(journal) Cognitive Psychology], Vol. 5, No. 1</ref> <ref>[[Michael George]], [[Jonathan Schaeffer]] ('''1990'''). ''[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.54.2766 Chunking for Experience]''. [[ICGA Journal#13_3|ICCA Journal, Vol. 13, No. 3]], [http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~jonathan/publications/ai_publications/mach.pdf pdf] </ref>.

=See also=
* [[Chunking]]
* [[Cognition]]
* [[EPAM]]
* [[MAPP]]
* [[Psychology]]

=Selected Publications=
<ref>[http://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/docs/References.pdf ICGA Reference Database] (pdf)</ref>
* [[Herbert Simon]], [[Kevin J. Gilmartin]] ('''1973'''). ''[https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1974-08458-001 A Simulation of Memory for Chess Positions]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_Psychology_(journal) Cognitive Psychology], Vol. 5, No. 1, reprinted in [[Herbert Simon]] ('''1979'''). ''[https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300024326/models-thought Models of Thought]'', [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_University_Press Yale University Press]
* [[Kevin J. Gilmartin]] ('''1979'''). ''[https://books.google.com/books/about/Social_indicators.html?id=3h5Q4WDIF_4C&redir_esc=y Social indicators: an annotated bibliography of current literature]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garland_Science Garland Science]
* [[Kevin J. Gilmartin]] ('''1984'''). ''[https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3102/00028312021001079 Measuring the Viability of Colleges: Who Is Really in Distress?]'' [https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/aer American Educational Research Journal], Vol. 21, No. 1

=External Links=
* [http://www.spoke.com/people/kevin-gilmartin-3e1429c09e597c100375ba6c Kevin Gilmartin, Vice President & Chief Information Officer, American Institute-Research | Spoke]

=References=
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