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Herbert A. Simon

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Herbert Alexander Simon was an American scholar whose work influenced the fields of computer science, economics, and cognitive psychology. Simon and Allen Newell received the ACM Turing Award in 1975. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Birth Year
1916 1
Birth Date
1916-06-15 1
Death Year
2001 1
Death Date
2001-02-09 1
Nationality
American 1
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1. Wikipedia: Herbert A. Simon
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    Herbert Alexander Simon (June 15, 1916, February 9, 2001) was an American scholar whose work influenced the fields of computer science, economics, and cognitive psychology. ... Simon and Allen Newell received the ACM Turing Award in 1975, and he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1978.
  • Infobox, Born
    June 15, 1916
  • Infobox, Died
    February 9, 2001
  • Lead section, first sentence
    Herbert Alexander Simon (June 15, 1916 - February 9, 2001) was an American scholar whose work influenced the fields of computer science, economics, and cognitive psychology.
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