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19561950s
Allen Newell
Pioneer of cognitive psychology and heuristics who co-created the first AI program.
Organizations
Carnegie Mellon UniversityRAND Corporation
Major Achievements
- •Co-created 'Logic Theorist' (1956), widely considered the first functioning AI program.
- •Developed the 'General Problem Solver' (1957) utilizing means-ends analysis.
- •Proposed the Physical Symbol System hypothesis, defining the core paradigm of symbolic AI.
- •Received the Turing Award in 1975.
Key Papers
- The Logic Theory Machine: A Complex Information Processing System
Allen Newell, Herbert A. Simon · IRE Transactions on Information Theory · 1956
- Report on a General Problem-Solving Program
Allen Newell, J. C. Shaw, Herbert A. Simon · RAND Corporation Report P-1584 · 1959
- Computer Science as Empirical Inquiry: Symbols and Search
Allen Newell, Herbert A. Simon · Communications of the ACM · 1976
Videos
Allen Newell, 1975 ACM A. M. Turing Award Recipient
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)