Allen Newell, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Allen Newell

American cognitive scientist

Date of Birth: 19-Mar-1927

Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, United States

Date of Death: 19-Jul-1992

Profession: computer scientist, physicist, mathematician, psychologist, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Allen Newell (March 19, 1927 – July 19, 1992) was a researcher in computer science and cognitive psychology at the RAND Corporation and at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, Tepper School of Business, and Department of Psychology.
He contributed to the Information Processing Language (1956) and two of the earliest AI programs, the Logic Theory Machine (1956) and the General Problem Solver (1957) (with Herbert A.
Simon).
He was awarded the ACM's A.M.
Turing Award along with Herbert A.
Simon in 1975 for their basic contributions to artificial intelligence and the psychology of human cognition.