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Allen Newell (March 19, 1927 – July 19, 1992) was an American researcher in computer science and cognitive psychology at the RAND Corporation and at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, Tepper School of Business, and Department of Psychology.
Allen Newell (born March 19, 1927, San Francisco, Calif., U.S.—died July 19, 1992, Pittsburgh, Pa.) was an American computer scientist and one of the pioneers of the science of artificial intelligence (AI).
Allen Newell was born in San Francisco on March 19, 1927 to Robert R. Newell, a prominent professor of radiology at Stanford Medical School, and Jeanette La Valley Newell. While Newell did not follow his father into medicine, he admired him greatly, and he certainly inherited his father’s taste for research and his broad intellectual interests.
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Allen Newell (March 19, 1927 – July 19, 1992) was a researcher in computer science and cognitive psychology at the RAND corporation and at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, Tepper School of Business, and Department of Psychology.
Jun 11, 2018 · Newell was a founder of artificial intelligence (AI) and a pioneer in the use of computer simulations in psychology. In collaboration with J. Cliff Shaw and Herbert. A. Simon, Newell developed the first list-processing programming language as well as the earliest computer programs for simulating human problem solving.
Jul 19, 1992 · We humans have long been obsessed with four great questions: the nature of matter, the origins of the universe, the nature of life, the workings of mind. Allen Newell chose for his life's work answering the fourth of these questions. He was a person who not only dreamt but gave body to his dream, brought it to life.
Allen Newell, one of the founders of both artificial intelligence and cognitive science, was awarded the National Medal of Science by United States President George Bush only a month before his death in July 1992.
Dec 1, 1992 · Allen Newell's research career was defined by his pursuit of a single question. It is the ultimate scientific question underlying psychology and AI as well as a substantial part of philosophy: What is the nature of the mind? Newell's autobiography (American Psychological Association 1986) puts it thusly:
Allen Newell. Born March 19, 1927, San Francisco, Calif.; died July 19, 1992, at Montefiore Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pa.; with Herbert Simon and John Shaw in 1957, first articulated a rule-based model of human and computer problem solving.
