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CURRICULUM VITAE Nobel Prize recipient Herbert A. Simon was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and educated at the University of Chicago, where he earned his A.B. degree, Phi Beta Kappa, in 1936 and his Ph.D. in 1943. He began his teaching career at the Illinois Institute of Technology and had become Chairman of the Department of Political and Social Science there at the age of 33 when he moved to the then Carnegie Institute of Technology. He is now Richard King Mellon University Professor of Computer Science and Psychology at Carnegie-Mellon University. Dr. Simon has been awarded honorary D.Sc., LL.D., Fil.D., and Dr. Economic Science degrees from many American and European institutions of higher learning, among them Yale University, Columbia University, the University of Michigan, the University of Pittsburgh, McGill University, Universite Paul-Valery, Lund University, and Erasmus University. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and served there as the Chairman of the Division of Behavioral Sciences of the National Research Council from 1968 to 1970. He is also a member of numerous other prestigious academies, societies, and associations in this country and abroad, including the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the American Philosophical Society, the Society of Experimental Psychologists, the Psychonomic Society, Sigma Xi, the Organizational Science Society of Japan, the Societe Royale des Lettres de Lund and the Yugoslavia Academy of Sciences. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the AAAS, the AEA, the APA, the ASA, the Econometric Society, and the International Academy of Management. He has, in addition, been visiting professor, lecturer, and consultant at colleges and uni- versities and industrial and governmental organizations too numerous to list here. Among his many publications are Reason in Human Affairs, Models of Bounded Rationality, The Sciences of the Artificial, Models of Thought, Models of Discovery, Administrative Behavior, and The New Science of Management Decision. Dr. Simon received the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1978. 24
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