Allen Newell

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American cognitive scientist (1927-1992)

United States AcademicsLived 1927 to 1992 · aged 65

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Awards 12

1992National Medal of Science

1992Louis E. Levy Medal of the Franklin Institute

1990IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award

1990AAAI Fellow

1989William James Fellow Award

1989IJCAI Award for Research Excellence

1985APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology

1975Turing Award

1971Harry H. Goode Memorial Award

Guggenheim Fellowship

Honorary doctor of the University of Groningen

IEEE W.R.G. Baker Award

Connected to Allen 6

Judea PearlAlso won IJCAI Award for Research Excellence

Adi ShamirAlso won IEEE W.R.G. Baker Award

J.B.S. HaldaneAlso won Honorary doctor of the University of Groningen

Whitfield DiffieAlso won Louis E. Levy Medal of the Franklin Institute

John L. HennessyAlso won IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award Mary AinsworthAlso won APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology

About this person

Allen Newell 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.

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