# Allen Newell
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allen newell (March 19, 1927 – July 19, 1992) was a researcher in computer science and cognitive psychology at the RAND Corporation and at Carnegie Mellon University’s 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 A. Simon). He was awarded the ACM's A.M. Turing Award along with Herbert A. Simon in 1975 for their basic contributions to artificial intelligence and the psychology of human cognition.
227 - Guest: John Laird, Cognitive architect, part 1
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Cognitive architecture deals in models of how the brain - or AI - does its magic. A challenging discipline to say the least, and we are lucky to have a foremost cognitive architect on the show in the person of John Laird. Is cognitive architecture…
228 - Guest: John Laird, Cognitive architect, part 2
This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
Cognitive architecture deals in models of how the brain - or AI - does its magic. A challenging discipline to say the least, and we are lucky to have a foremost cognitive architect on the show in the person of John Laird. Is cognitive architecture…
Decoding Symbolic AI: History of Good Old Fashioned Artificial Intelligence
In this episode, we delve deeper into the foundations, history, and current importance of Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Intelligence (GOFAI) and Symbolic AI. Discover the adventure of researchers taking the first steps of artificial intelligence from the 1950s onwards, designing systems based on lo…
Ep 98: There's no I in AI, Ben Shneiderman on The Evolution and State of Artificial Intelligence
Useful Resources: 1. Ben Shneiderman, Professor Emeritus, University Of Maryland. 2. Richard Hamming and Hamming Codes. 3. Human Centered AI - Ben Shneiderman. 4. Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon. 5. Raj Reddy and the Turing Award. 6. Doug Engelbart. 7. Alan Kay. 8. Conference on Human Factors i…
Lordwin Jeyakumar - November 2nd, 2025
Lordwin Jeyakumar - November 2nd 2025 - Divine Intelligence Over Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Isaiah 40:28
How many of you use technology every day ?
Artificial intelligence (AI), is a term coined in 1955 by John McCarthy, Stanford’s first faculty member in AI, who defined it as
“the scienc…
The Mind Can't Act Alone and AI Can't Either
Hello Interactors,
It’s winter. So, as the sun tilts toward the sun (up north) my writing tilts toward the brain. It’s when I put on my behavioral geography glasses and try to see the world as a set of loops between bodies and places, perception and movement, constraint and choice. It’s hard to do …
635. The Psychology of Computers with Tom Griffiths
Today's AI has been designed using insights from how humans learn and think about the world. Are there certain psychological lessons we can glean from these artificial minds to further our understanding of human ones?
Tom Griffiths is a professor of information technology, consciousness, and cult…
AI Agents to Model Human Cognition with John Laird
Tom chats with John Laird, who has spent the past 40 years trying to build an AI agent that accomplishes the full range of human cognitive abilities, beginning with his 1980s PhD research on the SOAR model of human cognition with Allen Newell and Paul Rosenbloom.
John E. Laird received his Ph.D. fr…
Whose Values Does Your AI Run On?
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Every AI agent your organisation deploys carries a values rulebook that somebody wrote. Usually a handful of researchers, at a Bay Area frontier lab. That is not a governance decision your board consciously made — it is the de…
The Man Who Studied Under AI's Founders Sounds the Alarm
Is AI still just a tool, or has it become something closer to an intelligent entity? Dr. Craig Kaplan, CEO of IQ Company and founder of superintelligence.com, breaks down why the answer changes everything about how we regulate and work with AI.
Dr. Kaplan studied under Herbert Simon and Allen Newe…
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