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Herbert Simon
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Herbert Simon

1916 – 2001 · aged 85

American political scientist, economist, sociologist, and psychologist (1916–2001)

Born
15 Jun 1916 · Milwaukee
Died
9 Feb 2001 · Pittsburgh

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Showing 98 years
  1. 15 Jun 1916BornBorn in Milwaukee
  2. 1954AwardFellow of the Econometric Society
  3. 1969AwardAPA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology
  4. 1975AwardTuring Award
  5. 1978AwardPrize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
  6. 1980AwardWilliam Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement
  7. 1983AwardHonorary doctorate from the University of Montpellier-III
  8. 1984AwardJosiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship
  9. 1986AwardNational Medal of Science
  10. 1987AwardHarold Pender Award
  11. 1988AwardJohn von Neumann Theory Prize
  12. 1989AwardWilliam James Fellow Award
  13. 1990AwardAAAI Fellow
  14. 9 Feb 2001DiedDied in Pittsburgh

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1916 – 2001).

  1. 1917Balfour Declaration
  2. 1917February Revolution
  3. 1917October Revolution
  4. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  5. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  6. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  7. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  8. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  9. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  10. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  11. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  12. 1938Munich Agreement
  13. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  14. 1939 – 1945World War II
  15. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  16. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  17. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  18. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  19. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  20. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  21. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  22. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  23. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  24. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  25. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  27. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  28. 1956Suez Crisis
  29. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  30. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  31. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  32. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  33. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  35. 1968Prague Spring
  36. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  37. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  38. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  39. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  40. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution

Biography

Herbert Alexander Simon (June 15, 1916 – February 9, 2001) was an American scholar whose work influenced the fields of computer science, economics, and cognitive psychology. His primary research interest was decision-making within organizations and he is best known for the theories of "bounded rationality" and "satisficing". He and Allen Newell received the ACM Turing Award in 1975, and he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1978.

His research was noted for its interdisciplinary nature, spanning the fields of cognitive science, computer science, public administration, management, and political science. He was at Carnegie Mellon University for most of his career, from 1949 to 2001, where he helped found the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science, one of the first such departments in the world.

Notably, Simon was among the pioneers of several modern-day scientific domains such as artificial intelligence, information processing, decision-making, problem-solving, organization theory, and complex systems. He was among the earliest to analyze the architecture of complexity and to propose a preferential attachment mechanism to explain power law distributions.

Text from the Wikipedia article Herbert A. Simon, CC BY-SA 4.0

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