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Allen Newell

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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/

Facts
Birth Year
1927 1
Birth Date
1927-03-19 1
Death Year
1992 1
Death Date
1992-07-19 1
Nationality
American 1
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Guggenheim Fellowship 2
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William James Fellow Award 2
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Harry H. Goode Memorial Award 2
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IEEE W.R.G. Baker Award 2
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APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology 2
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Turing Award 2
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AAAI Fellow 2
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Louis E. Levy Medal of the Franklin Institute 2
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Honorary doctor of the University of Groningen 2
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IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award 2
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IJCAI Award for Research Excellence 2
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National Medal of Science 2
FAQs

How did Allen Newell come to work with Herbert Simon?

He met Simon while at Rand, and their talks on modeling human thinking led him to move to Pittsburgh.

Newell was a research scientist at the Rand Corporation from 1950 to 1961. While at Rand he met Herbert A. Simon, then a professor of industrial administration at Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie Mellon University. Their discussions on how human thinking could be modeled led Newell to go to Pittsburgh so the two could collaborate. He earned a doctorate in industrial administration there in 1957.
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In Field

Artificial Intelligence, Fields
Source Wikipedia: Allen Newell

Invented

IPL (Information Processing Language), Programming Languages
Source Information Processing Language (Wikipedia)
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Allen Newell

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Turing Award

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Source Wikipedia: Allen Newelltier 2

Nationality

United States

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1. Wikipedia: Allen Newell
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  • Lead section
    He and Simon were awarded the ACM Turing Award in 1975 for their contributions to artificial intelligence and the psychology of human cognition.
  • Infobox, Born
    March 19, 1927
  • Infobox, Died
    July 19, 1992
  • In Field: Artificial Intelligence, Lead
    Simon, and Cliff Shaw contributed to the Information Processing Language (1956) and two of the earliest AI programs, the Logic Theorist (1956) and the General Problem Solver (1957).
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2. Wikidata: Allen Newell
Wikidata Q439245, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
Information Processing Language (Wikipedia)
Invented: IPL (Information Processing Language), Infobox: designer
Quote, Invented: IPL (Information Processing Language), Infobox: designer
Allen Newell, Cliff Shaw, Herbert A. Simon
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