Proceedings of a Harvard Symposium on Digital Computers and Their Applications, 3-6 April 1961.

[NEWELL, Allen 1927-1992]

Published by Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962., 1962

FIRST EDITION. xiv, 1 leaf, 332 pp. Original cloth, 4to. Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket. Annals of the Computation Laboratory of Harvard University, Volume XXXI. Contributors include von Philippe le Corbeiller, George A. Miller, Garrett Birkhoff, Robert E. Lynch, Burton S. Dreben, Brian Mac Mahon, Robin Esch, Andrew M. Gleason. Copy of Allen Newell (1927-1992), with his signature. Newell 'was a researcher in computer science and cognitive psychology at the RAND corporation and at Carnegie Mellon's University 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 Theory Machine (1956) and the General Problem Solver (1957) (with Herbert Simon). He was awarded the ACM's A. M. Turing Award along with Simon in 1975 for their basic contributions to artificial intelligence and the psychology of human cognition' (Wikipedia). 'With the death from cancer on July 19, 1992, of Allen Newell the field of artificial intelligence lost one of its premier scientists, who was at the forefront of the field from its first stirrings to the time of his death and whose research momentum had not shown the slightest diminution up to the premature end of his career. The history of his scientific work is partly my history also, during forty years of friendship and nearly twenty of collaboration, as well as the history of the late J. C. (Cliff) Shaw, a longtime colleague . . . If you asked Allen Newell what he was, he would say, 'I am a scientist.' He played that role almost every waking hour of every day of his adult life. How would he have answered the question, 'What kind of scientist?' We humans have long been obsessed with four great questions: the nature of matter, the origins of the universe, the nature of life, the workings of mind. Allen Newell chose for his life's work answering the fourth of these questions. He was a person who not only dreamt but gave body to his dream, brought it to life. He had a vision of what human thinking is. He spent his life enlarging that vision, shaping it, materializing it in a sequence of computer programs that exhibited the very intelligence they explained' (Herbert A. Simon, Biographical Memoirs, National Academy of Sciences). Seller Inventory # 21079

Bibliographic Details

Title: Proceedings of a Harvard Symposium on ...
Publisher: Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962.
Publication Date: 1962
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition