ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award
| Allen Newell | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 19, 1927 San Francisco |
| Died | July 19, 1992 (aged 65) Pittsburgh |
| Fields |
Computer Science Cognitive Psychology |
| Institutions | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Alma mater |
Stanford University Princeton University Carnegie Mellon University |
| Doctoral advisor | Herbert A. Simon |
| Doctoral students |
Hans Berliner Stuart Card Frank Ritter Paul Rosenbloom Milind Tambe Several others |
| Known for |
Information Processing Language Soar |
| Notable awards |
A.M. Turing Award (1975) IJCAI Award for Research Excellence (1989) IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (1990) National Medal of Science (1992) Louis E. Levy Medal (1992) |
Allen Newell (/ˈnuːəl, ˈnjuː-/; 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. He contributed to the Information Processing Language (1956) and two of the earliest AI programs, the Logic Theory Machine (1956) and the General Problem Solver (1957) (with Herbert A. Simon). He was awarded the ACM's A.M. Turing Award along with Herbert A. Simon in 1975 for their basic contributions to artificial intelligence and the psychology of human cognition.
Newell completed his Bachelor's degree in physics from Stanford in 1949. He was a graduate student at Princeton University during 1949-1950, where he studied mathematics. Due to his early exposure to a new field known as game theory and the experiences from the study of mathematics, he was convinced that he would prefer "a combination of experimental and theoretical research to pure mathematics" (Simon).
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