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Allen Newell

Allen Newell. Presented by Conner Fear. Early Life. Born in San Francisco in 1927 Father was distinguished professor at Stanford Medical School Played high school football and described himself as an indifferent pupil Married at age 20 Enlisted in the Navy in World War II

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Allen Newell

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  1. Allen Newell Presented by Conner Fear

  2. Early Life • Born in San Francisco in 1927 • Father was distinguished professor at Stanford Medical School • Played high school football and described himself as an indifferent pupil • Married at age 20 • Enlisted in the Navy in World War II • B.S. in Physics from Stanford • A year at Princeton Graduate School for Mathematics

  3. Career • Went to work for the RAND Corporation • Applied game theory to study the organization of the Air Force • Saw many similarities between how humans and computers solved problems • Went to Carnegie Mellon to collaborate with Herbert Simon • Produced the Logic Theorist (LT) and General Problem Solver (GPS) • Produced first list-processing language • Focused on speech recognition and human-computer interactions through the 1960’s and 70’s

  4. “Soar” Project • Attempt to develop a unified theory of cognition • Described problem solving as a series of if-then statements • Ideas based on neurological and physiological testing and data • Sought to recreate actions of brain rather than architecture • Project continues today

  5. Awards • Harry Goode Award of the American Federation of Information Processing Societies (1971) • ACM Turing Award (1975, with Simon) • Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association (1985) • National Medal of Science (1992)

  6. Impact • Helped build CMU’s psychology department to a top-tier program • Instrumental in creating CMU’s School of Computer Science • Helped create CMU’s campus-wide computer network

  7. Sources • http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/biomems/anewell.html • http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/newell_3167755.cfm

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