Allen Newell

Allen Newell , born on March 19th, 1927, dead on July 19th, 1992, was a researcher in Informatique and cognitive Psychologie with the company RAND and Carnegie-Melon' S School off Computer Science. It contributed to the Information Processing Language (1956) and to two of the first programs in IA, the Logic Theory Machine (1956) and the General Problem Solver (1957) (with Herbert Simon).

SOAR is an attempt to carry out some of the considerations of Newell which wished a Théorie unified Connaissance, baptized, “You edge' T play twenty with questions natural and win,” (1973). There exist other architectures Cognitives same kind, in particular that of John Anderson, the theory ACT, which became a popular unified theory, used today successfully by the cognitive scientists to model the human behavior in broad fields of activities.

It gained the Turing Award of the ACM with Herbert Simon in 1975 for their collective efforts over more than 20 years, initially in collaboration with J.C. Shaw and the company RAND, then afterwards with many colleagues and students of the university Carnegie-Melon, for their contributions to the base of the Artificial intelligence, the psychology of the thought (cognition), and the handling of the lists.

Reference

Allen Newell, Herbert A. Simon, Biographical Memoirs, National Academy off Sciences
Publications by Allen Newell from Interaction-Design.org

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