Herbert A. Simon Quotes


Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.


Citations

Simon, Herbert A. "Why Should Machines Learn?" Machine Learning: An Artificial Intelligence Approach, edited by Ryszard S. Michalski, et al., Tioga Publishing, 1983, p. 28.

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Herbert A. Simon
Herbert A. Simon
  • Born: June 15, 1916
  • Died: February 9, 2001
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Economist

Herbert Alexander Simon was an American economist, political scientist and cognitive psychologist, whose primary research interest was decision-making within organizations and is best known for the theories of "bounded rationality" and "satisficing". He received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1978 and the Turing Award in 1975. His research was noted for its interdisciplinary nature and spanned across the fields of cognitive science, computer science, public administration, management, and political science. He was at Carnegie Mellon University for most of his career, from 1949 to 2001.