AI News books. He co-authored Human Problem Solving with Simon in 1972, and co-authored The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction with Card and Moran in 1983. His most recent book, Unified Theories of Cognition, published by Harvard University Press in 1990, is based on the thesis that tools are at hand that will allow psychologists to start to develop a unified theory describing many different types of behavior, instead of building separate theories to cover isolated aspects, as has long been the practice. Newell's awards and honors include the Harry Goode Award of the American Federation of Information Processing Societies (1971); the A.M. Turing Award of the Association for Computing Machinery, jointly with Simon (1975); the Alexander C. Williams Jr. Award of the Human Factors Society (1979); the Distinguished Research Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association (1985); the Research Excellence Award of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (1989); the Emanuel R. Piore Award of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (1990); and the Franklin Institute's Louis E. Levy Medal (1992). He was awarded honorary doctor degrees by the University of Pennsylvania and Groeningen University in the Netherlands. Newell was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was the first president of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and president of the Cognitive Science Society. In 1987 he delivered the William James Lectures to the Department of Psychology at Harvard. Those lectures formed the basis for his book, Unified Theoriesof Cognition. Allen Newell Dies, Age 651 Allen Newell, one of the founders of the fields of artificial intelligence and cognitive science, died July 19 in Pittsburgh. He was 65. Neweil earned an international reputation for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence, the theory of human cognition and the development of computer software and hardware systems for complex information processing. Last month he was awarded the National Medal of Science by President Bush. Newelrs career spanned the entire computer era, which began in the early 1950s. In computer science, he worked on areas as diverse as list processing, computer description languages, hypertext systems and psychologically based models of human-computer interaction. The fields of artificial intelligence and cognitive science grew in part from his idea that computers could process symbols as well as numbers, and if programmed properly would be capable of solving problems in the same way humans do. In the 1960's (in particular) Allen and Herb Simon created computer models of human problem solving. This work was one of the major forces behind the "cognitive revolution" in psychology. Throughout his research career his work touched on architectures to support intelligent action in humans and machines. Since the early 1980s, his research interests were centered on the development of Soar, a cognitive architecture realized as a software system capable of solving problems and learning in ways similar to human beings. As a proposed unified theory of cognition, the goals of Soar are to model how humans perform the complete range of mental tasks and to provide an underlying structure that would also enable a computer system to perform these tasks. Soar is in use as a framework for intelligent system design at research institutions around the world. A native of San Francisco, Newell received a bachelor's degree in physics from Stanford University in 1949. He spent a year at Princeton University doing graduate work in mathematics, and worked for the Rand Corporation as a research scientist from 1950-61. While at Rand, he met Nobel Laureate Herbert A. Simon, then a professor of industrial administration at Carnegie Institute of Technology (CIT), now Carnegie Mellon University. Their discussions on how human thinking could be modeled led Newell to come to Pittsburgh so the two could collaborate. Newell earned a doctor's degree in industrial administration from CIT's business school in 1957. Newell joined the CIT faculty as a professor in 1961. He played a pivotal role in creating Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science and elevating the school to world-class status. Newell, a professor of psychology and the U.A. and Helen Whitaker professor of computer science at the time of his death, wrote and co-authored more than 250 publications, including 10 1. This announcement was prepared by Prof. Newell's colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University, and was provided to SIGART by Jill Fain Lehman, Jill_Fain@cs.cmu.edu,and Paul Rosenbloom, rosenblo@isi.edu. National Science Foundation News L a u r e n c e C. R o s e n b e r g D e p u t y Director Information, Robotics & Intelligent Systems Division National Science F o u n d a t i o n Washington, D.C. 20550 U S A Irosenbe@nsf.gov 1. Personnel Dr. Oscar Garcia joined the IRIS staff on September 1, 1992. as Program Director for the Interactive Systems Program, while he is on leave from the George Washington University. The previous program director, Dr. John Hestenes, returns to Drexel University to resume his professorial duties. Oscar N. Garcia is a full Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the George Washington University and the senior faculty in the Artificial Intelligence graduate program. He was Professor and the first Chairman of the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of South Florida where he taught from 1970 to 1985. Professor Garcia received BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University, and his PhD from the University of Maryland. His research area is artificial intelligence with particular emphasis on speech recognition, knowledge acquisition and representation, and multivalued logics to represent uncertainty. He has worked in computer architectures and parallel processing, testing S I G A R T Bulletin Vol. 3, No. 4

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