George Miller

George Miller was an American psychologist whose 1956 paper on the limits of short-term memory, showing that human recall is bounded not by a fixed number of items but by chunks of recoded information, became one of the founding texts of cognitive science. His work treated the mind as a system that processes and represents information, a framework that displaced the behaviorist assumption that psychology could study only observable stimulus and response. Miller later helped found Princeton University's Cognitive Science Laboratory and co-created WordNet, a large lexical database used throughout computational linguistics.