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Formulated the physical-symbol-system hypothesis and argued that heuristic search and symbol manipulation provide an empirical framework for studying intelligent action in computers and humans.
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The record is the exact two-author 1976 Communications of the ACM Turing Award lecture. It does not turn the hypothesis into a proved universal theorem, absorb earlier Logic Theorist and GPS systems or settle later debates over non-symbolic intelligence.
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Allen Newell; Herbert A. Simon
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Newell and Simon: computer science as empirical inquiry, symbols and search
Formulated the physical-symbol-system hypothesis and argued that heuristic search and symbol manipulation provide an empirical framework for studying intelligent action in computers and humans.
Scientific scope
The record is the exact two-author 1976 Communications of the ACM Turing Award lecture. It does not turn the hypothesis into a proved universal theorem, absorb earlier Logic Theorist and GPS systems or settle later debates over non-symbolic intelligence.
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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
Allen Newell; Herbert A. Simon
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.