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Herbert A. Simon
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Herbert A. Simon

Nobel laureate; co-built the first AI program.

1916–2001United States
Wikipedia

With Allen Newell wrote Logic Theorist, generally counted the first artificial intelligence program. Won the Nobel in Economics for bounded rationality and the Turing Award for AI.

Known for
Logic TheoristBounded rationalityTuring Award 1975Nobel Prize in Economics 1978

2 CareerEvery role we can document, most recent first

  1. 1949–200152 yrsCarnegie Mellon UniversityProfessor
  2. 1952–19608 yrsRAND CorporationResearcher

2 Books & papersPublished work, oldest first

  1. 1947Administrative Behavior
  2. 1969The Sciences of the Artificial

LineageWho taught whom. Most of this field descends from a handful of laboratories, and the shortest path between two researchers is usually an advisor.

Worked alongsideco-founders and close collaborators
Allen NewellAllen Newell

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