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About dcognition.ai
dcognition.ai is the home for The Cognitive Revolution: How AI Is Reorganizing Intelligence, Expertise, and Institutions and for ongoing writing about AI, distributed cognition, institutional change, expertise, and leadership. Everything here is organized around one question: what must be redesigned now that cognition is increasingly distributed across humans and machines?
Author statement
About Jiajie Zhang
Jiajie Zhang, PhD, writes about how AI is reorganizing intelligence, expertise, and institutions. He is a cognitive scientist, dean, and professor whose work explores distributed cognition, external representations, human–AI interaction, and the future of institutional design.
Dr. Zhang is an elected Fellow of AAAS, ACMI, AIMBE, AMIA, and IAHSI, and a recipient of the President George H. W. Bush Award from the Asian Pacific American Heritage Association. He earned a PhD in Cognitive Science (the world's first) under Donald A. Norman from the University of California San Diego, where he witnessed the development of the Backpropagation algorithm by David Rumelhart, Geoffrey Hinton, and Ron Williams and was the first Teaching Assistant for the Parallel Distributed Processing (PDP) course for undergraduate students. His BS in biology was from the University of Science and Technology of China through the Special Class for Gifted Young.
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