Allen Newell was an American researcher who, working with Herbert Simon, built some of the first programs to model human reasoning computationally, including the Logic Theorist (1956) and the General Problem Solver (1957). Newell argued that intelligence, whether human or artificial, could be studied as symbol manipulation carried out by a physical system, a position known as the physical symbol system hypothesis that shaped both artificial intelligence and cognitive psychology for decades. He spent most of his career at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account Birth DateSourced to the subject's own account Death DateSourced to the subject's own account Death YearSourced to the subject's own account FieldCognitive Science / Computer Science 2 Death PlaceSourced to the subject's own accountPittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1 NationalitySourced to the subject's own account Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own accountThe Logic Theorist and General Problem Solver, developed with Herbert Simon 1 BirthplaceSourced to the subject's own accountSan Francisco, California 1 Connections
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July 19, 1992) was an American researcher in computer science
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At this time, primitive computers had been around for only a few years, but pioneers such as John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Allen Newell, and Herbert Simon were founding the field of artificial intelligence.
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