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Intelligence Engineer

Allen Newell: Intelligence Engineer Jim Morris 5 min read · Jul 10, 2021 -- Listen Share I first encountered Allen Newell in a graduate seminar. One day he asked a graduate student, David Parnas, who went on to an influential career in software engineering, if he would make a presentation the following week. Parnas said, “Well, if you twist my arm….”, so Newell, always open to a joke, walked over to him and twisted his arm until he submitted. In that seminar, and many times thereafter, I witnessed Newell’s intellectual fearlessness. His lifelong research goal was understanding human cognition,

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