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Allen Newell

1927 - 1992

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Allen Newell (March 19, 1927 – July 19, 1992) was an American 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, Herbert A. Simon, and Cliff Shaw contributed to the Information Processing Language (1956) and two of the earliest AI programs, the Logic Theorist (1956) and the General Problem Solver (1957). He and Simon were awarded the ACM's A.M. Turing Award in 1975 for their contributions to artificial intelligence and the psychology of human cognition. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Allen Newell is the 53rd most popular computer scientist (down from 31st in 2019), the 3,431st most popular biography from United States (down from 2,148th in 2019) and the 31st most popular American Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Allen Newell ranks 53 out of 245. Before him are Thomas E. Kurtz, Mary Kenneth Keller, Juris Hartmanis, Paul Graham, Joseph Weizenbaum, and Bruce Perens. After him are Leonard Kleinrock, Leslie Lamport, Alan Perlis, Pierre Bézier, James Gosling, and Amir Pnueli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Allen Newell ranks 145. Before him are Roy Chiao, Vittorio Gregotti, Júlio Duarte Langa, Stanisław Kania, Vladimir Shatalov, and Juan Alonso. After him are Pierre Henry, Laura Betti, Bernard Vukas, Vladimir Ilyushin, Halton Arp, and Theodor Wagner. Among people deceased in 1992, Allen Newell ranks 103. Before him are Nie Rongzhen, Seichō Matsumoto, Ajahn Chah, Néstor Almendros, Wang Hongwen, and Jean Dieudonné. After him are Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, Fritz Leiber, Alex Haley, Tevfik Esenç, Jim Garrison, and Arthur Cronquist.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Allen Newell ranks 3,431 out of 20,380. Before him are James Taylor (1948), William Heard Kilpatrick (1871), Richard Basehart (1914), Annie Proulx (1935), Kristen Stewart (1990), and Henry Silva (1928). After him are John Ritter (1948), Drew Barrymore (1975), Don Cheadle (1964), Sylvia Sidney (1910), Besse Cooper (1896), and Jerry Seinfeld (1954).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Allen Newell ranks 31. Before him are Ivan Sutherland (1938), Steve Russell (1937), Kevin Mitnick (1963), David Patterson (1947), Thomas E. Kurtz (1928), and Mary Kenneth Keller (1913). After him are Leonard Kleinrock (1934), Leslie Lamport (1941), Alan Perlis (1922), J. C. R. Licklider (1915), Vernor Vinge (1944), and Ron Rivest (1947).

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