Allen Newell - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

• 1971 — John Danz Lecturer, University of Washington
• 1971 — Harry Goode Memorial Award, American Federation of Information Processing Societies
• 1972 — Elected to member of the United States National Academy of Sciences
• 1972 — Elected to Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 1975 — A. M. Turing Award (with Herbert A. Simon), Association for Computing Machinery
• 1976-77 — Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
• 1979 — Alexander C. Williams Jr. Award (with William C. Biel, Robert Chapman and John L. Kennedy), Human Factors Society
• 1980 — Elected to member of the United States National Academy of Engineering
• 1980 — First President, American Association for Artificial Intelligence
• 1981 — Charter recipient of the Computer Pioneer Award from the IEEE Computer Society
• 1985 — Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, American Psychological Association
• 1986 — Doctor of Science (Honorary), University of Pennsylvania
• 1987 — William James Lectures, Harvard University
• 1989 — Award for Research Excellence, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
• 1989 — Doctor in the Behavioral and Social Sciences (Honorary), University of Groningen, The Netherlands
• 1989 — William James Fellow Award (charter recipient), American Psychological Society
• 1990 — IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award
• 1990 — IEEE W.R.G. Baker Prize Paper Award
• 1992 — U.S. National Medal of Science
• 1992 — The Franklin Institute’s Louis E. Levy Medal

The ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award was named in his honor. The Award for Research Excellence of the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science was also named in his honor.