Earl B. Hunt is an American psychologist specializing in the study of human and artificial

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...

 intelligence. Within these fields he has focused on individual differences in intelligence and the implications of these differences for the roles people play within a high-technology society. Now in partial retirement as emeritus professor of psychology and adjunct professor of computer science at the University of Washington

University of Washington

University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...

. His book Will We Be Smart Enough? combines cognitive theory, demographic projections and psychometric research to measure the capabilities of tomorrow's workforce against the needs of tomorrow's workplace.
He is president of the International Society for Intelligence Research

International Society for Intelligence Research

The International Society for Intelligence Research is a scientific society for researchers in human intelligence.Founded in 2000, ISIR hosts an annual conference offering an opportunity for those interested in intelligence to meet, present their research, and discuss current issues...

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Appointments

2001-	Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of Washington
1978-01	Professor of Psychology, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, University of Washington
1971-78	Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology, University of Washington
1966-75	Professor of Psychology and Computer Science, University of Washington
1965-66	Associate Professor of Business Administration and Psychology, UCLA
1963-65	Senior Lecturer in Physics (Electronic Computing), University of Sydney
1963	Lecturer in Psychology, University of Sidney
1961-62	Staff Research Specialist, Western Management Science Institute, UCLA
1960-61	Acting Assistant Professor, Yale University
1959	Research Associate, Psychological Research Associates, Inc.
1954-57	United States Marine Corps

Publications

• Human Intelligence (2010)
• The Mathematics of Behavior (2006)
• Will We Be Smart Enough? (1995)

• The Role of Intelligence in Modern Society
• The cognitive-psychology approach vs. psychometric approach to intelligence