353 Herbert Simon
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us us Born 1916, Milwaukee, WI; Died 9 February 2001, Pittsburgh PA; Nobel prize winner in economics and leader in AI and cognitive psychology who in 1956 with Allen Newell and J. C. (Cliff) Shaw first articulated a model of human and computer problem solving based on heuristic search and invented list processing languages to implement it. Educ: PhD, Political Science, University of Chicago, 1943; Prof. Exp: Int'l. City Managers' Assoc., Chicago, 1936-39; University of California, Berkeley, 1939-42; Illinois Institute of Technology, 1942-49; Carnegie Institute of Technology (later renamed Carnegie Mellon University): Graduate School of Industrial Administration, 1949-65, Richard King Mellon University Professor of Computer Science and Psychology, 1965-present; Honors and Awards: Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions, American Psychological Association, 1969; ACM A. M. Turing Award (with Allen Newell), 1975; Nobel Prize in Economics, 1978; ORSA/TIMS John von Neumann Award, 1984; National Medal of Science, 1986; Member, National Academy of Sciences. |
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