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Mind Models:
Artificial Intelligence Discovery At Carnegie Mellon
For
a half century, Carnegie Mellon University has been a leader in the research and
design of artificial intelligence (AI) - the creation of "thinking machines".
Many of Carnegie Mellon's achievements came from pioneering work by professors
Herbert
A. Simon and Allen
Newell.
Individually and as research partners, Simon and Newell studied the way people solve problems. They developed computer programs that used human strategies for decision making. Designing these programs led to important theories in cognitive psychology - the study of think (cognition).
The work of Simon and Newell inspired advancements in cognitive theory and
computer science at Carnegie Mellon and at universities worldwide. Allen Newell
was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1992. Herbert A. Simon's wide ranging
knowledge in several fields of study was recognized in his 1978 Nobel Prize
in Economics.
October 2001 -- http://shelf1.library.cmu.edu/IMLS/MindModels/
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