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Awards and honors

Simon received many top-level honors in life, with notable honors being listed below:

• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1959.
• Member of the American Philosophical Society, 1959.
• Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 1967.

• Honorary doctorate, Lund School of Economics and Management, 1968.
• APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, 1969.
• ACM's Turing Award, 1975.
• Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, 1978.
• National Medal of Science, 1986.
• Honorary degree, University of Pavia, 1988.
• APA's Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to Psychology, 1993.
• Honorary Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) degree from Harvard University in 1990.^{[citation needed]}
• ACM fellow, 1994.
• IJCAI Award for Research Excellence, 1995.
• Honorary degree, University of Buenos Aires, 1999.

Artificial intelligence

Simon was a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence, creating with Allen Newell the Logic Theory Machine (1956) and the General Problem Solver(GPS) (1957) programs. Both programs were developed using the Information Processing Language (IPL) (1956) developed by Newell, Cliff Shaw, and Simon. Donald Knuth mentions the development of list processing in IPL, with the linked list originally called "NSS memory" for its inventors. Simon later claimed in an interview that "everything a brain does can be adequately explained in terms of information processing" and that computers are capable of comparable levels of information processing.