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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.
- March 19, 1927, San Francisco, California
- Herbert A. Simon
- July 19, 1992 (aged 65), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Professionally, Newell is chiefly remembered for his important contributions to artificial intelligence research, his use of computer simulations in psychology, and his inexhaustible, infectious energy. His central goal was to understand the cognitive architecture of the human mind and how it enabled humans to solve problems.
Abstract: Newell (1980; 1990) proposed that cognitive theories be developed in an effort to satisfy multiple criteria and to avoid theo-retical myopia. He provided two overlapping lists of 13 criteria that the human cognitive architecture would have to satisfy in order to be functional.
Jan 1, 1994 · Harvard University Press. Psychology. Psychology is now ready for unified theories of cognition—so says Allen Newell, a leading investigator in computer science and cognitive psychology. Not everyone will agree on a single set of mechanisms that will explain the full range of human cognition,...
Allen came to doubt that lack of experimental evidence was the limiting factor in the progress of cognitive psychology. Sufficient data, he thought, already existed to pin down much of the structure of the mind at the architectural level.
Abstract. Psychology is now ready for unified theories of cognition—so says Allen Newell, a leading investigator in computer science and cognitive psychology. In this book, Newell makes the case for unified theories by setting forth a candidate. After reviewing the foundational concepts of cognitive science—knowledge, representation ...
In cognitive science, Newell focused on problem-solving and the cognitive architecture that supports intelligent action in humans and machines. In computer science, he worked on areas as diverse as list processing, computer description languages, hypertext systems and psychologically based models of human-computer interaction.
