Died 1992-07-19.
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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 Gene…
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Born 19 March 1927 · Died 19 July 1992 · Q439245
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Died 1992-07-19.
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Won Louis E. Levy Medal of the Franklin Institute (1992).
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Won National Medal of Science (1992).
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Awarded AAAI Fellow (1990).
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Awarded IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (1990).
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But their improvement was the objective of his efforts up to his death (one of the last Newell's letters Archived 2011-05-14 at the Wayback Machine)
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Awarded IJCAI Award for Research Excellence (1989).
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Awarded William James Fellow Award (1989).
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— Doctor of Science (Honorary), University of Pennsylvania
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Awarded APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology (1985).
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Awarded Turing Award (1975).
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For their contributions to artificial intelligence and the psychology of human cognition
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Awarded Harry H. Goode Memorial Award (1971).
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— Harry Goode Memorial Award, American Federation of Information Processing Societies
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Studied at Carnegie Mellon University, Doctor of Philosophy (1957).
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The Chess Machine: An Example of Dealing with a Complex Task by Adaptation, which "outlined an imaginative design for a computer program to play chess in humanoid fashion"
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To build a simulator that would enable them to examine and analyze the interactions in the cockpit related to decision-making and information-handling
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Left Princeton and joined the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica where he worked for "a group that was studying logistics problems of the Air Force"
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Studied at Stanford University, Bachelor of Science (1949).
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Born 1927-03-19.
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