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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
1927 1
Birth DateSourced to the subject's own account
1927-03-19 1
Death DateSourced to the subject's own account
1992-07-19 1
Death YearSourced to the subject's own account
1992 1
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Cognitive Science / Computer Science 2
Death PlaceSourced to the subject's own account
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1
NationalitySourced to the subject's own account
American 1
Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own account
The Logic Theorist and General Problem Solver, developed with Herbert Simon 1
BirthplaceSourced to the subject's own account
San Francisco, California 1
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1. Allen Newell (Wikipedia)
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July 19, 1992) was an American researcher in computer science
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1. Allen Newell (Wikipedia)
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Known for Information Processing Language Logic Theorist General Problem Solver Soar Unified Theories of Cognition
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2. Cognitive Science (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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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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2. Cognitive Science (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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