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Tom Griffiths

Cognitive scientist and professor

Tom Griffiths is a Princeton University professor who studies human decision-making and how it connects to computation. He wrote Algorithms to Live By with Brian Christian.

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Born in London, United Kingdom

Tom Griffiths

About Tom Griffiths

Tom Griffiths is an Australian academic and a professor of psychology and computer science at Princeton University. He directs the Computational Cognitive Science Lab there, and his research has appeared in journals including Science and Nature. His work looks at how people make decisions and how that relates to problem-solving methods in computing. With Brian Christian, he wrote Algorithms to Live By, which MIT Technology Review named one of its Best Books of 2016.

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