Person/Herbert A. Simon

• Herbert A. Simon

  • American economist, political scientist and cognitive scientist, born 15 June 1916 in Milwaukee and died 9 February 2001.[1] Longtime faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University (earlier the Carnegie Institute of Technology).[2]
  • Won the 1978 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for his pioneering research into the decision-making process within economic organizations."[2]
  • Won the 1975 A.M. Turing Award with Person/Allen Newell.[3]

  • Ideas

    • Coined "satisficing" in 1956: Satis/fice

  • Footnotes

    • [1] https://www.informs.org/Explore/History-of-O.R.-Excellence/Biographical-Profiles/Simon-Herbert-A

    • [2] https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1978/simon/facts/

    • [3] https://history.computer.org/pioneers/simon.html