# Allen Newell **Domain:** Artificial Intelligence / Cognitive Science **Doc Type:** Person Node **Maturity:** Foundational ## Definition **Allen Newell** was a computer scientist and cognitive scientist whose work helped establish artificial intelligence, symbolic problem solving and computational theories of cognition. ## Speech Research Context Newell chaired the advisory study group that refined the objectives of ARPA's [[wiki/Speech Understanding Research|Speech Understanding Research]] program. The group's report specified a controlled research target against which systems including [[wiki/HARPY|HARPY]] were later evaluated. ## Corpus Context His role in [[articles/Modern Artificial Intelligence in the 1970s|Modern Artificial Intelligence in the 1970s]] connects technical research to the institutional design of evaluation. ## Sources / Provenance - Allen Newell et al., _Speech-Understanding Systems: Final Report of a Study Group_, 1971/1973.