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Herbert A. Simon

Herbert A. Simon has 2 papers in our library, in 1956–1959, most of them on Reasoning; often with Allen Newell.

2 papers in our library · 1956–1959

OpenAlex · h-index 163 · 851 works · 178,353 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 63 times in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #2210

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 Affiliations

🎓Carnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburgh · United States1951–2025 · 319 paperscurrent💡RAND CorporationSanta Monica · United States1899–2007 · 10 papers🎓Illinois Institute of TechnologyChicago · United States1943–1978 · 5 papers🎓University of California, BerkeleyBerkeley · United States1962–2004 · 3 papers🎓University of ChicagoChicago · United States1937–2004 · 3 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 5 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 2The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Artificial Intelligence · 2 worksComputer Science · 2 works

🧭 Topics 1Research subjects and languages the work is about.Reasoning · 1 work

 Works by year

1950s

19591 paper19561 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. The logic theory machine: A complex information processing system (1956 · 875 citations)
    Note: The supplied PDF extraction contains only empty page markers (pp. 1–64) and no text. This summary is based on the paper's widely documented content and has not been checked against the source. Please verify it, especially any figures, before adding it to the library.
  2. Report on a general problem-solving program (1959 · 482 citations)
    This draft report by Newell, Shaw and Simon, a working manuscript dated December 1958, explains how computer programs can serve as theories of problem solving, both in the abstract and in human thinkers.

 Co-authors here

1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first.

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 63 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 22 citing papers with a page here →.

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