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19561950s
Herbert A. Simon
Nobel Laureate who bridged economics, psychology, and computer science.
Organizations
Carnegie Mellon UniversityRAND Corporation
Major Achievements
- •Co-authored the Logic Theorist and General Problem Solver with Allen Newell.
- •Introduced the concepts of 'bounded rationality' and 'satisficing' in decision-making.
- •Won the Nobel Prize in Economics (1978) and the Turing Award (1975).
- •Famously predicted in 1957 that a computer would beat a human at chess within 10 years.
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
Herbert A. Simon - Unedited Interview about History of AI at CMU from 1955-1985
CMU Robotics Institute