Models of My Life
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Science & Math
Models of My Life (1991) by Herbert A. Simon is the autobiography of the economist, psychologist and computer scientist. Simon describes his upbringing in Milwaukee, his studies at the University of Chicago and his long career at Carnegie Mellon University. He recounts his work on how organizations make decisions, his early research in artificial intelligence with Allen Newell and his views on science, and he reflects on his life as a series of models.