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Herbert Alexander Simon

1916-

American computer scientist and economist who was awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize in Economics for his research into decision-making processes within economic organizations.

Simon has investigated the intellectual processes behind decision-making in an effort to help construct computer programs that can replicate human thought processes. Along the way, he helped develop list processing computer languages that are commonly used among artificial intelligence researchers.

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