Allen Newell

Allen Newell
Born	(1927-03-19)March 19, 1927 San Francisco, California
Died	July 19, 1992(1992-07-19) (aged 65) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Alma mater	Stanford University Princeton University Carnegie Mellon University
Known for	Information Processing Language Logic Theorist General Problem Solver Soar Unified Theories of Cognition
Awards	A.M. Turing Award (1975) IJCAI Award for Research Excellence (1989) IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (1990) National Medal of Science (1992) Louis E. Levy Medal (1992)
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science Cognitive psychology
Institutions	Carnegie Mellon University
Doctoral advisor	Herbert A. Simon
Doctoral students	Hans Berliner Stuart Card John E. Laird Frank Ritter Milind Tambe

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 contributed to the Information Processing Language (1956) and two of the earliest AI programs, the Logic Theorist (1956) and the General Problem Solver (1957) (with Herbert A. Simon). He was awarded the ACM's A.M. Turing Award along with Herbert A. Simon in 1975 for their contributions to artificial intelligence and the psychology of human cognition.^[1][2]