Awards & Winners

Allen Newell

Date of Birth 19-March-1927
Place of Birth San Francisco
(California, United States of America, San Francisco Bay Area, San Francisco Peninsula, Area code 415)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Computer Scientist, Researcher
Allen Newell 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 and two of the earliest AI programs, the Logic Theory Machine and the General Problem Solver. 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.

Awards by Allen Newell

Check all the awards nominated and won by Allen Newell.

1992


National Medal of Science for Mathematics and Computer Science
(For his seminal contributions to the development of artificial intelligence, the theory of human cognition and the software and hardware of computational systems for complex information processing.)

1975


Turing Award
(for their basic contributions to artificial intelligence and the psychology of human cognition)