# 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. ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts <!-- BEGIN SIMPLE REMINDER SEED 2026-09-11 --> > "There are now in the world machines that think, that learn and that create." > **— Herbert A. Simon and Allen Newell**, *Heuristic Problem Solving: The Next Advance in Operations Research (1958), attribution clue* *Verification Status: Unverified — exact wording/source has not yet been independently confirmed against a primary source; source clue: Heuristic Problem Solving: The Next Advance in Operations Research (1958), attribution clue.* [[reminders/unverified/Machines That Think, Learn, and Create Already Exist by Herbert A. Simon and Allen Newell|Machines That Think, Learn, and Create Already Exist by Herbert A. Simon and Allen Newell]] <!-- END SIMPLE REMINDER SEED 2026-09-11 --> ## Sources / Provenance - Allen Newell et al., _Speech-Understanding Systems: Final Report of a Study Group_, 1971/1973.