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Herbert A. Simon was born on June 15, 1916, in Milwaukee and held citizenship in the United States. He was an economist, politician, computer scientist, and a scientist. Simon pursued his education at the University of Chicago.
Throughout his career, Simon received numerous awards, including the 1975 Turing Award, the 1978 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, the John von Neumann Theory Prize, the Harold Pender Award, the IJCAI Award for Research Excellence, and the National Medal of Science. Simon was also an ACM Fellow, a Member of the National Academy of Sciences, and received the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology.
Simon is known for his work on bounded rationality, satisficing, information processing language, logic theorist, and general problem solver. One of his notable works is "Administrative Behavior".
Throughout his academic career, Simon had several doctoral students, including Allen Newell, Edward Feigenbaum, Ferdinand K. Levy, Yuji Ijiri, and Richard P. Korf. Simon's doctoral advisor was Harold Lasswell.
Herbert A. Simon passed away on February 9, 2001, in Pittsburgh.