FC: Herb Simon, Nobel laureate and AI pioneer, dies at 84

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

[I studied under Dr. Simon at Carnegie Mellon. He will be very much missed. 
--Declan]


http://www.postgazette.com/breaking/20010209simon3.asp

   Friday, February 09, 2001
   By Byron Spice, Science Editor, Post-Gazette

   Herbert Simon, winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize in Economics and a
   pioneer in the fields of artificial intelligence and cognitive
   psychology, died this morning at UPMC Presbyterian. He was 84.

   Dr. Simon died of complications that developed following a surgical
   procedure in January.

   His fascination with human decision-making was the driving force in
   his career. His theory of "bounded rationality," for which he won the
   Nobel, was that people don't necessarily make the best, most rational
   choice of goods or services, but select the ones that seem good enough
   to meet their needs.

   [...]




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