Allen Newell
1927
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1992
country of citizenship: United States of America
educated at: Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, Princeton University, Tepper School of Business, Lowell High School
occupation: psychologist, computer scientist, mathematician, university teacher, physicist
award received: Guggenheim Fellowship, Turing Award, National Medal of Science, IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award, William James Fellow Award, IJCAI Award for Research Excellence, APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, Honorary doctor of the University of Groningen, Louis E. Levy Medal of the Franklin Institute, IEEE W.R.G. Baker Award
Allen Newell (March 19, 1927 – July 19, 1992) was an American researcher in computer science and cognitive psychology at the RAND Corporation and at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, Tepper School of Business, and Department of Psychology. He contributed to the Information Processing Language (1956) and two of the earliest AI programs, the Logic Theorist (1956) and the General Problem Solver (1957) (with Herbert A. Simon). He was awarded the ACM's A.M. Turing Award along with Herbert A. Simon in 1975 for their contributions to artificial intelligence and the psychology of human cognition. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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