Person/Allen Newell

• Allen Newell

  • American researcher in computer science and cognitive psychology, born 19 March 1927 and died 19 July 1992, who worked at the RAND Corporation and Carnegie Mellon University.[1]
  • With Person/Herbert A. Simon he built early artificial intelligence programs, the Logic Theory Machine (1956) and the General Problem Solver (1957), and shared the 1975 A.M. Turing Award with Simon.[1]
  • Herbert Simon thanked Newell for "numerous enlightening conversations" in the 1956 paper that introduced satisficing: Satis/fice.[2]

  • Footnotes

    • [1] https://history.computer.org/pioneers/newell.html

    • [2] https://pages.ucsd.edu/~mckenzie/Simon1956PsychReview.pdf