Allen Newell

Allen Newell (March 19, 1927 - July 19, 1992) was a 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 Theory Machine (1956) and the General Problem Solver (1957) (with Herbert Simon). He was ... more

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  • Mar 19, 1927

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  • Jul 19, 1992 (age 65 years)

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Year Award Award Winner Notes/Description
  • 1975
  • for their basic contributions to artificial intelligence and the psychology of human cognition
  • 1992
  • For his seminal contributions to the development of artificial intelligence, the theory of human cognition and the software and hardware of computational systems for complex information processing.
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