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Allen Newell
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1927
- Died
- 1992
- Works
- 11
Top works
- Human problem solving
- Computer structures
- GPS
- The Soar papers
- Soar
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,538x
- UK Biobank: An Open Access Resource for Identifying the Causes of a Wide Range of Complex Diseases of Middle and Old Age
· 2015 · cited 12,409x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,704x
- Use of Ranks in One-Criterion Variance Analysis
· 1952 · cited 10,894x
- The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,205x
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Quotes
- “Computer science is an empirical discipline. [...] Each new machine that is built is an experiment. Actually constructing the machine poses a question to nature; and we listen for the answer by observing the machine in operation and analyzing it by all analytical and measurement means available. Each new program that is built is an experiment. It poses a question to nature, and its behavior offers clues to an answer.”
- “The Physical Symbol System Hypothesis. A physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for general intelligent action.”
- “Heuristic Search Hypothesis. The solutions to problems are represented as symbol structures. A physical symbol system exercises its intelligence in problem solving by search—that is, by generating and progressively modifying symbol structures until it produces a solution structure.”
- “If you think there is nothing problematic or mysterious about a symbol system solving problems, then you are a child of today, whose views have been formed since mid-century. Plato (and by his account, Socrates) found difficulty understanding even how problems could be entertained, much less how they could be solved. Let me remind you of how he posed the conundrum in the Meno:”
- “[The] amount of search is not a measure of the amount of intelligence being exhibited. What makes a problem a problem is not that a large amount of search is required for its solution, but that a large amount would be required if a requisite level of intelligence were not applied.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1927-03-19 ) March 19, 1927, San Francisco, California
- Died
- July 19, 1992 (1992-07-19) (aged 65), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Education
- Stanford University ( BS ), Princeton University , Carnegie Mellon University ( MS , PhD )
- Known for
- Information Processing Language , Logic Theorist , General Problem Solver , Soar , Unified Theories of Cognition
- Spouse
- Noel McKenna ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1947 )
- 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)
- Fields
- Computer science , Cognitive psychology
- Institutions
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Doctoral advisor
- Herbert A. Simon
- Doctoral students
- Hans Berliner , Stuart Card , John E. Laird , Frank Ritter , Milind Tambe
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Encyclopedic overview
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. He, Herbert A. Simon, and Cliff Shaw contributed to the Information Processing Language (1956) and two of the earliest AI programs, the Logic Theorist (1956) and the General Problem Solver (1957). He and Simon were awarded the ACM Turing Award in 1975 for their contributions to artificial intelligence and the psychology of human cognition.
Early studies
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