Simon, Herbert

(b. 1916. Ph.D. Political Science, University of Chicago). About 1954, Simon and Newell conceived of using computer programming language to build theories of human symbolic behavior. Simon and his colleagues showed how a wide range of cognitive processes in problem solving and problem understanding can be explained in information-processing terms and modeled with computer programs. See computational models , symbolicism .
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