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“It has been a long road from Plato's Meno to the present, but it is perhaps encouraging that most of the progress along that road has been made since the turn of the twentieth century, and a large fraction of it since the midpoint of the century. Thought was still wholly intangible and ineffable until modern formal logic interpreted it as the manipulation of formal tokens. And it seemed still to inhabit mainly the heaven of Platonic ideals, or the equally obscure spaces of the human mind, until computers taught us how symbols could be processed by machines.”

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Allen Newell
Allen Newell

Allen Newell was an American computer scientist born on March 19, 1927, and passed away on July 19, 1992. He made significant contributions to the field of artificial intelligence, particularly in logic, cognitive science, and programming languages. more

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