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ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award

Allen Newell
Born (1927-03-19)March 19, 1927
San Francisco
Died July 19, 1992(1992-07-19) (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 (/ˈnəl, ˈnj-/; 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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