97,105| Born | Herbert Alexander Simon, June 15, 1916, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Died | February 9, 2001, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Fields | Economics, Artificial intelligence, Computer science, Political science |
| Institutions | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Education | University of Chicago, (B.A, 1936, Ph.D, 1943) |
| Other academic advisors | Rudolf Carnap, Nicholas Rashevsky, Harold Lasswell, Charles Merriam, John R. Commons |
| Doctoral students | Edward Feigenbaum, Allen Newell, Richard Waldinger, John Muth, William F. Pounds |
| Known for | Bounded rationality, Satisficing, Information Processing Language, Logic Theorist, General Problem Solver |
| Influences | Richard T. Ely, John R. Commons, Henry George, Chester Barnard, Charles Merriam |
| Influenced | Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky, Gerd Gigerenzer, James March, Allen Newell, Philip E. Tetlock, Richard Thaler, John Muth, Oliver E. Williamson, Massimo Egidi, Vela Velupillai, Ha Joon Chang, William C. Wimsatt, Alok Bhargava, Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
| Notable awards | Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1967), Turing Award (1975), Nobel Prize in Economics (1978), National Medal of Science (1986), Harold Pender Award (1987), von Neumann Theory Prize (1988), APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology (1969), ACM Fellow (1994), IJCAI Award for Research Excellence (1995) |
| Children | 3 |
About Herbert A. Simon
Economist Herbert A. Simon was born in Pennsylvania, United States on June 15, 1916. He dies at the age of 84, on February 9, 2001.
Nobel Laureate economist who developed the satisficing hypothesis, which states that humans prefer outcomes that aren't perfect but are just good enough.
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Herbert A. Simon before becoming famous
Herbert A. Simon was born in the Zodiac sign Gemini (The Twins), and 1916 is also the year of Dragon (龍) in the Chinese Zodiac.
He was an excellent student in Minnesota's public schools who was bored with coursework but intrigued by the idea of studying human behavior in a systematic way.
Achievement of Herbert A. Simon
He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and received the National Medal of Science in 1986 and the American Psychological Association's Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to Psychology in 1993.
Herbert A. Simon's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship
His mother's younger brother, a qualified economist, encouraged him to pursue his studies.
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His work was relevant not only to economics, but also to the developing subject of artificial intelligence, which Mathematician Alan Turing pioneered.
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