Models Of My Life by H. A. Simon

Author:H. A. Simon
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2007-12-28T08:00:00+00:00

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quite a span of years if not generations is likely to elapse. Nevertheless, I think it is fair to regard these researchesalong with the social-psychological researches mentioned earlieras portents that we are in time going to have theory in managementtheory of the kind that predicts reality, and not the kind that is contrasted with practice. When that time comes, managers will be those who can handle and apply that theory. [Simon 1950, p. 4]

Computers were within my sphere of attention, but only computers used as number crunchers. In spite of the "giant brain" metaphor, there is little suggestion in this 1950 talk that the most important application of computers might lie in imitating intelligence symbolically, not numerically. Arriving at that insight was the critical step that was required for genuine artificial intelligence to emerge. Both Al Newell and I arrived at it in the early 1950s, but by somewhat different routes.

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