1927-1992

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Biography:

Son of professor of radiology of the university of Stanford grew up in San Francisco and he graduated in Stanford, after graduating spent a year in Princeton, but he decided that he was not a mathematician and chose to work for the RAND Corporation in a project on the modeled one of a regional center of air defense. Newell knew Simon, with which Source shared its affinity about the I.A. (Fonts: Aircenter.net)

"The scientific problem chooses you; you don't choose it. My style is to deal with a single problem, namely, the nature of the human mind. That is the one problem that I have cared about throughout my scientific career, and it will last me all the way to the end. "

Precepts of Newell

Allen Newell led a very productive and satisfying life as a computer scientist. Here are some of the heuristics I think he used:

" Do what you love, love what you do". His incredible energy and enthusiasm sprung from this.
"Help others to find a similar state, no matter how different their choices might be." Since he was happy and secure in the rightness of what he was doing, Allen was open-minded about what other people did, and often could help them make good choices.
" Don't worry about how intrinsically smart you are or anyone else is". I never saw him feel threatened by another person's brilliance or offended by their lack of it. He judged only performance.
"Be intellectually tough -- uniformly on everyone". Allen was intellectually the toughest critic I ever had. At first, I didn't think this fit with his supportive attitude. But then I realized that it wasn't personal; he applied tough standards to himself and everyone else.
"Be careful about what you commit to do, and then really do it". He agreed to do only some of the things I asked him, but he would always help with something he believed was important. When he did, there was no doubt about his level of effort.