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George Armitage Miller

American psychologist (–)

George Armitage Miller
Born	()February 3, Charleston, West Virginia, US
Died	July 22, () (aged&#;92) Plainsboro, New Jersey, US
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Scientific career
Fields	Psychology, cognitive science
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Thesis	Optimal Design of Jamming Signals &#;()
Doctoral advisor	Stanley Smith Stevens
Notable students	George Sperling, Ulric Neisser

George Armitage Miller (February 3, – July 22, )^[1] was an American psychologist who was one of the founders of cognitive psychology, and more broadly, of cognitive science. He also contributed to the birth of psycholinguistics. Miller wrote several books and directed the development of WordNet, an online word-linkage database usable by computer programs. He authored the paper, "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two," in which he observed that many different experimental findings considered together reveal the presence of an average limit of seven for human short-term memory capacity. This paper is frequently cited by psychologists and in the wider culture. Miller won numerous awards, including the National Medal of Science.

Miller began his career when the reigning theory in psychology

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George Miller (filmmaker)

Australian filmmaker (born )

Not to be confused with George T. Miller.

George MillerAO (born 3 March ) is an Australian filmmaker. Over the course of four decades he has received critical and popular success creating the Mad Max franchise starting in with two of the films having been hailed as two of the greatest action films of all time.^[1] He has also earned numerous accolades including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Golden Globe Award.

Miller rose to prominence directing the dystopianaction-adventure films Mad Max (), Mad Max 2 () and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (). He then directed the dark fantasy comedy The Witches of Eastwick (), and the biographical medical drama Lorenzo's Oil (), which he also co-wrote earning a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He produced and co-wrote the family film Babe (), earning an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay nomination, and later directed the sequel Babe: Pig in the City ().

In , he also produced the confronting cinema verité documentary Video Fool for Love, which dealt with film editor Robert Gibson's personal life as captured in hundreds of hours of camcorder footage.

He won the Academy Award for Best Animated F