Herbert Simon
Professor of Computer Science and Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
Charles M. and Martha Hitchcock Lectures
February 6, 1990 — 4:10 PMUniversity of California, Berkeley — UC Berkeley Campus
About Herbert Simon
Professor Simon was a renowned economist, scientist and psychologist who researched sociology, computer science, cognitive psychology and political science. He was the first person to analyze the architecture of complexity and propose a preferential attachment mechanism to explain power law distributions. In 1978, he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his outstanding research on the decision-making process within economic organizations.