Models of My Life by Herbert A Simon

Models of My Life by Herbert A Simon

In this candid and witty autobiography, Nobel laureate Herbert A. Simon looks at his distinguished and varied career, continually asking himself whether (and how) what he learned as a scientist helps to explain other aspects of his life.A brilliant polymath in an age of increasing specialization, Simon is one of those rare scholars whose work defines fields of inquiry. Crossing disciplinary lines in half a dozen fields, Simon's story encompasses an explosion in the information sciences, the transformation of psychology by the information-processing paradigm, and the use of computer simulation for modeling the behavior of highly complex systems.Simon's theory of bounded rationality led to a Nobel Prize in economics, and his work on building machines that think--based on the notion that human intelligence is the rule-governed manipulation of symbols--laid conceptual foundations for the new cognitive science. Subsequently, contrasting metaphors of the maze (Simon's view) and of the mind (neural nets) have dominated the artificial intelligence debate.There is also a warm account of his successful marriage and of an unconsummated love affair, letters to his children, columns, a short story, and political and personal intrigue in academe.

Herbert A. is a well-known author. Simon (1916-2001) was a well-known psychologist and political scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1978 and the Turing Award in 1975 (together with Allen Newell). Models of Bounded Rationality and Models of My Life (both published by the MIT Press) are two of his many books.

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ISBN 13	9780262691857
ISBN 10	026269185X
Title	Models of My Life
Author	Herbert A Simon
Series	The Mit Press
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	MIT Press Ltd
Year published	1996-10-08
Number of pages	464
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