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COMPUTER SCIENTIST

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 332,614 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. Allen Newell is the 40th most popular computer scientist, the 2,708th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,851st in 2019) and the 24th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Allen Newell ranks 40 out of 201. Before him are Luigi Federico Menabrea, Peter Naur, Ken Kutaragi, Maurice Wilkes, Brian Kernighan, and Nolan Bushnell. After him are Jack Dorsey, Frances E. Allen, Don Norman, Leslie Lamport, Fred Brooks, and Warren Weaver.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Allen Newell ranks 118. Before him are Andy Williams, Josy Barthel, Nguyễn Khánh, Pierre Henry, Mikhail Ulyanov, and Óscar Míguez. After him are Colin Davis, William Labov, Raymond Chow, Gerry Mulligan, Jorge Batlle, and Carlos José Castilho. Among people deceased in 1992, Allen Newell ranks 86. Before him are Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Giorgio Perlasca, Gavriil Ilizarov, Josy Barthel, Ajahn Chah, and Stella Adler. After him are Isidro Lángara, Fritz Leiber, Jean Dieudonné, Marsha P. Johnson, Jeff Porcaro, and Audre Lorde.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Allen Newell ranks 2,708 out of 18,182. Before him are Michael DeBakey (1908), Dyan Cannon (1937), Ted Nelson (1937), Henry Morgenthau Jr. (1891), Winslow Homer (1836), and Wallace Shawn (1943). After him are Liev Schreiber (1967), George Pullman (1831), Katharine Graham (1917), Jimmie Angel (1899), Cindy Sherman (1954), and Lee Krasner (1908).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Allen Newell ranks 24. Before him are Leonard Kleinrock (1934), Kevin Mitnick (1963), Ivan Sutherland (1938), Barbara Liskov (1939), J. C. R. Licklider (1915), and Nolan Bushnell (1943). After him are Jack Dorsey (1976), Frances E. Allen (1932), Don Norman (1935), Leslie Lamport (1941), Fred Brooks (1931), and Warren Weaver (1894).

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