Mind Matters
Subtitle: A Tribute To Allen Newell (Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition)
Contributors: David M. Steier (Editor); Tom M. Mitchell (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Published: June 1, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780805813630
Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Computer architecture & logic design; Human-computer interaction; Congresses; Cognition; Psychology; Science/Mathematics; Philosophy; Artificial Intelligence - General; Psychology & Psychiatry / Cognitive Psychology; Cognitive Psychology; Cognitive science
Description: Allen Newell is most often described as one of the founders of artificial intelligence, but he could equally well be described as a founder of cognitive science, the field of human-computer interaction, or the systematic study of computational architectures. The symposium held at Carnegie Mellon University in his honor paid tribute to the breadth of his career with contributions from top scientists in all these disciplines.

Their papers are included in this volume, along with commentaries about the implications of the presentations for Soar, a computational architecture for intelligent action to whose design Allen devoted the last decade of his life. The volume therefore forms a remarkable snapshot of science in the style that Allen inspired, simultaneously striving for integrative coherence in theory building while accounting for a wide range of detailed empirical data in cognitive and computer science.