Allen Newell

Allen Newell was an American researcher in computer science and cognitive psychology at the RAND Corporation and at Carnegie Mellon University. He, Herbert A. Simon, and Cliff Shaw contributed to the Information Processing Language and two of the earliest AI programs, the Logic Theorist and the General Problem Solver. He and Simon were awarded the ACM Turing Award in 1975 for their contributions to artificial intelligence and the psychology of human cognition. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/