Herbert A. Simon

Herbert A. Simon
Born	Herbert Alexander Simon (1916-06-15)June 15, 1916 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Died	February 9, 2001(2001-02-09) (aged 84) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Nationality	United States
Fields	Artificial Intelligence Cognitive psychology Computer science Economics Political science
Institutions	Carnegie Mellon University University of California, Berkeley Illinois Institute of Technology
Alma mater	University of Chicago
Doctoral advisor	Henry Schultz
Other academic advisors	Rudolf Carnap Nicholas Rashevsky Harold Lasswell Charles Merriam John R. Commons
Doctoral students	Edward Feigenbaum Allen Newell Richard Waldinger John Muth William F. Pounds
Known for	Logic Theory Machine General Problem Solver Bounded rationality Satisficing
Influences	Richard T. Ely, John R. Commons, Henry George, Chester Barnard, Charles Merriam
Influenced	Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky, James March, Allen Newell, Philip E. Tetlock, Richard Thaler, John Muth, Oliver E. Williamson, Massimo Egidi, Vela Velupillai, Ha Joon Chang, William C. Wimsatt, Alok Bhargava
Notable awards	Turing Award (1975) Nobel Prize in Economics (1978) National Medal of Science (1986) Harold Pender Award (1987) von Neumann Theory Prize (1988) APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology (1969) APA Award for Lifetime Contributions to Psychology (1993) ACM Fellow (1994) IJCAI Award for Research Excellence (1995)
Spouse	Dorothea Isabel Pye (1939-2001, his death) (1913-2002)
Children	Katherine, Peter, Barbara

Herbert Alexander Simon (June 15, 1916 – February 9, 2001) was an American political scientist, economist, sociologist, psychologist, and computer scientist whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive psychology, cognitive science, computer science, public administration, economics, management, philosophy of science, sociology, and political science, unified by studies of decision-making.

Simon was among the pioneers of several of today's important scientific domains, including artificial intelligence, information processing, decision-making, problem-solving, organization theory, complex systems, and computer simulation of scientific discovery. He coined the terms bounded rationality and satisficing, and was among the earliest to analyze the architecture of complexity and to propose a preferential attachment mechanism to explain power law distributions.

Simon received many top-level honors in life, including the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1978 and the Turing Award in 1975. He also received honorary degrees from various universities, such as from Harvard University. As of 2016, Simon was the most cited person in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Psychology on Google Scholar. With almost a thousand highly cited publications, he was one of the most influential social scientists of the twentieth century.

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