1. Allen Newell
by: Raymond Barringer

2. Birth and Death Born March 19, 1927 in San Francisco
Died on July 19, 1992 in Pittsburgh
He was 65 years old When he died

3. Studies and Jobs Majored in Physics at Stanford
Graduate Studies in Mathematics at Princeton
RAND Corporation
Carnegie Mellon University

4. Accomplishments Information Processing Language (1956)
Logic Theory Machine (1956)
General Problem Solver (1957)
Turing award in 1975 with Herbert Simon
ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award

5. Information Processing Language
Herbert Simon, J.C. Shaw
Simple Problem Solving actions
Lists
Dynamic Memory Allocation
Data Types
Recursion
List processing concept

6. Logic Theory Machine Herbert Simon, J.C. Shaw First AI program
Mimics human problem solving
Search Tree
Heuristics
List Processing

7. General Problem Solver
Herbert Simon, J.C. Shaw
GPS
Intended as Universal Problem Solver
Formalized Symbolic Problems
Separated Knowledge from Strategy

8. Sources Wikipedia: www.acm.org
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General Problem Solver (
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AM Turing Award (
ACM AAAI Allen Newell Award (