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Allen Newell
Pages 154-159

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... His scientific career was distinguished not only by deep insights and remarkable innovation but also by his concern with creating and nurturing institutions suitable for furthering the growth of computer science. He was a founder of the Carnegie Mellon Computer Science Department now one of the worlcl's major departments; he was a founder of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and was its first president.
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... Simon of Carnegie Mellon University. Rand transferred Newell to Pittsburgh to work with Simon, and in December of 1955 the two of them conceived, and then in a creative burst programmed, the first heuristic problem solving program, Logic Theorist (LT)
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... Newell won all the major scientific awards of computer science, artificial intelligence, and cognitive psychology, including the A
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... 158 MEMORIAL TRIBUTES Newell working with you on a problem, whether a departmental problem, a thesis problem, a scientific problem, or a funding problem. His colleagues and his students came to love him because he gave so much to them to their science and to their lives.
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