Pioneers

Allen Newell

Artificial Intelligence

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General Reference

Computing Atlas. "Allen Newell." Accessed September 1, 2026. https://dev-computing.interactiveatlas.org/pioneers/allen-newell.

APA Style

Computing Atlas. (n.d.). Allen Newell. Retrieved September 1, 2026, from https://dev-computing.interactiveatlas.org/pioneers/allen-newell

BibTeX

@misc{computingatlas-allen-newell,
  author = {Computing Atlas},
  title = {Allen Newell},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-computing.interactiveatlas.org/pioneers/allen-newell},
  note = {Accessed September 1, 2026}
}

Allen Newell was an American researcher in computer science and cognitive psychology at the RAND Corporation and at Carnegie Mellon University. He, Herbert A. Simon, and Cliff Shaw contributed to the Information Processing Language and two of the earliest AI programs, the Logic Theorist and the General Problem Solver. He and Simon were awarded the ACM Turing Award in 1975 for their contributions to artificial intelligence and the psychology of human cognition.

Facts

Birth Year

1927 1

Birth Date

1927-03-19 1

Death Year

1992 1

Death Date

1992-07-19 1

In the Other Atlases

Also in Science Atlas: Allen Newell, the same subject.
Also in Science Atlas: Turing Award, discussed there.

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Allen Newell was an American researcher in computer science and cognitive psychology at the RAND Corporation and at Carnegie Mellon University. He and Herbert A. Simon were awarded the ACM Turing Award in 1975 for their contributions to artificial intelligence and the psychology of human cognition.

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