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Allen Newell

1927 - 1992

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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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Allen Newell has received more than 356,309 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Allen Newell is the 31st most popular computer scientist (up from 40th in 2019), the 2,148th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,701st in 2019) and the 20th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Allen Newell ranks 31 out of 245. Before him are Sergey Brin, Peter Naur, Kevin Mitnick, Ward Cunningham, Barbara Liskov, and Tony Hoare. After him are Satoshi Nakamoto, Luigi Federico Menabrea, Ken Kutaragi, Leonard Kleinrock, Maurice Wilkes, and Juris Hartmanis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Allen Newell ranks 105. Before him are Jorge Batlle, Hans Schäfer, Martin Walser, Nguyễn Khánh, Yitzhak Hofi, and Carlos José Castilho. After him are Eduardo Martínez Somalo, Arthur Cohn, François Furet, Zbigniew Cybulski, Lee Grant, and Óscar Míguez. Among people deceased in 1992, Allen Newell ranks 68. Before him are Princess Margaret of Denmark, Judith Anderson, José Ferrer, Jim Garrison, Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, and Atahualpa Yupanqui. After him are Banine, Albert King, Väinö Linna, Jânio Quadros, Stella Adler, and Gavriil Ilizarov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Allen Newell ranks 2,148 out of 20,380. Before him are James J. Braddock (1905), Henry J. Heinz (1844), Alexander Shulgin (1925), John O'Keefe (1939), Jackie Jackson (1951), and Karen Uhlenbeck (1942). After him are Lewis Mumford (1895), Beau Bridges (1941), Harold Garfinkel (1917), Cloris Leachman (1926), Mike Pompeo (1963), and Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Allen Newell ranks 20. Before him are Vint Cerf (1943), Alan Kay (1940), Larry Page (1973), Kevin Mitnick (1963), Ward Cunningham (1949), and Barbara Liskov (1939). After him are Leonard Kleinrock (1934), Jef Raskin (1943), Alan Perlis (1922), Frances E. Allen (1932), Edmund M. Clarke (1945), and Charles Bachman (1924).

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