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"Models in a Behavioral Theory of the Firm," Behavioral Science, Cyert, R.,

E. Feigenbaum, J. G. March, April, 1959. /)YQ 7.5- f?7-^"Suggested Revisions in the Theory of the Firm," Behavioral Theory of the

Firm Working Paper #6, Graduate School of Industrail Administration,

Carnegie Institute of Technology.

"Latent Motives, Group Discussion and the 'Quality' of Group Decisions in

a Non-Objective Decision Problem, March, J. G. and E. Feigenbaum, Sociometry_,March, 1960. 'VW >*, AI $ 1"Comment: The Distinctiveness of Stimuli," Feigenbaum, E. and H. A. Simon,Psychological Review, 68, & July, 1961, ?p 283-288.

"Soviet Cybernetics and Computer Science, 1960," Communications of the, Association

for Computing Machinery, Dec, 1961. And, Transactions of the IRE ProfessionalGroup on Electronic Computers, Dec . , 1 961 ."The Simulation of Verbal Learning Behavior," Proceedings of the 1901 Western

Joint Computer Conference, Vol. 19, May 1961, pp. 121-129.

"Performance of a Reading TasK by an Elementary Perceiver and Memorizer,"(with H. A. Simon) The RAND Corporation, Paper P-2358, July 1961. Behavioral

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RESUME Edward Albert Feigenbaum

EDUCATION

I am currently a graduate student in the Doctoral Program in the BehavioralSciences, Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Institute ofTechnology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This is my third year of graduate studies,and I am now completing work on my doctoral dissertation. Advisers for thisdissertation project are Dr. Herbert A. Simon, Dr. Allen N swell, and Dr. HaroldLeavitt (see References).

My undergraduate degree, conferred by Carnegie Tech, in 19>6, is in ElectricalEngineering (with a minor in Industrial Management).

My educational training includes the following subject areas, representing bothformal course work and informal study*

Industrial Administration and Economics

Theory of Administration and Organization Theory (March, Simon)Theory of the Firm, classical and. so-called "beharloral" (Cyertj March)Macro-Economies (Roberts)Mathematical Economics (Modigliani)Mathematical Models and Techniques in Operations ResearchAccounting and Cost AccountingHuman Relations in Industry

I have passed the following Ph. D« qualifying examinations inthis area:

Theory of Administration and. Organizations (major examination)Business Policy and InstitutionsQuantitative Controls and Statistics

Behavioral Sciences

Psychology!

Basic PsychologyLearning TheoryIndividual and Social AdjustmentHuman Thinking and Problem-Solving (Simon)

Plus much additional reading in conjunction with my researchon the simulation of human cognitive processes.

Social Psychology?

Theory and Experimental Methods (March)Anthropology and Sociology (March)Mathematical Models In the Social Sciences (Simon)Complex Information Processes and she Simulation of Human

Cognitive Processes (Wewell, Simon)

I have passed a Ph* D. qualifying examination in Social Psychology.

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Mathematics and Physical Sciences

Noteworthy areas of study here arei

Calculus (three semesters)Differential and Partial Differential EquationsModern Algebra (two semesters* Number theory-. Group Theory,,

etc., and the Algebra of ¥ectors and Matrices.)Advanced Applied Statistics (three semesters s Fundamental

Theory, Multivariate Analysis, Samplings and ProbabilityTheory, )

Dynamics and StaticsElectronic ComputersBasic Information Theory (and Finite State Machines)Basic Game TheoryKinetic Theory and ThermodynamicsSorvomechanism TheoryField Theory (two semejrbers)

Fellowships

1258-59 Ford Foundation Fellowship in Business Administration andEconomics, for doctoral dissertation completion.

1958-59 Social Science Research Council Pre-Doctoral ResearchTraining Fellowship, declined.

1957-58 Graduate School of Industrial Administration Fellowship.

1956-57 Social Science Research Council First Tear Fellowship.

1955 Social Science Research Council Undergraduate ResearchTraining Grant.

Scholarships

1955-56 General Electric Company Scholarship and Award,

19$h-£$ Samuel Horellck Scholarship

1952-5u Carnegie Institata of Technology Scholarships

Awards

1956 First Honor Graduate, Class of 1956, Caraegie Institute ofTechnology.

1953 Faculty Memorial Award,

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RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AT CARNEGIE TECH.

1 Simulation of Human Cognitive Processes . Since 1956, I have beenworking with Professorsllewell and Simon on the invention ofheuristic computer programs wliich simulate human higher mentalprocesses. In particular, I have constructed programs which sim-ulate certain aspects of human rote learning, in an effort to framean information theory of human verbal learning processes. (SeeDoctoral Dissertation.)

References E. Feigenbaum and H. A. Simon, nA Theory of the SerialPosition Effect," Working Paper i IU, Complex InformationProcessing Project, Graduate School of Industrial Admini-stration, Carnegie Institute of Technology. Paper pre-sented before Pittsburgh Psychological Association 1958Scientific Meeting.

2 c£-ZgSg?^Jgg languages. In connection with the above- nmentioned project, I have been involved in the design and imple-mentation of a new programming language and Eystem for the IBM 70iiComputer. Known as IPL V, it is an interpretive language designedto handle problems whose nature is primarily symbol-manipulatingrather than arithmetic. It was designed with the idea that itmight find wide use among social scientists interested in the simu-lation of human cognitive processes and decision-mcking processes.

References "Manual for Programming in Information ProcessingLanguage V," the Rand Corporation and the GraduateSchool of Industrial Administration, CarnegieInstitute of Technology (to be published.)

3. Behavioral Theory of the Firm. March, Cyert, and I have attemptedto incorporate the March-Simon theory of organizational and decisionmaking processes into the theory of the firm. This effort involvedthe simulation on a computer of the output-price decisions of theduopolistic can companies, American and Continental. This constitutesone of the first attempts to produce economic theory in the languageof the digital computer (well adapted to the description of decision-making processes) rather than the language of mathematics.

Reference* R. Cyert, E, Feigenbaum, J. March, "Models in a BehavioralTheory of the Firm," forthcoming in Behavioral Science,presented before December, 195?> meeting of thTllconometricSociety, Philadelphia, Pa.E. Feigenbaum, "Suggested Revisions in the Theory of theFirm," IJorldng Paper ,"6, Behavioral Theory of the FirmProject, Graduate School of Industrial Administration,fernegie Institute of Technology. Presented beforeInstitute of Management Sciences Research Seminar,October, 1957, Detroit, Michigan.

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li„ Studies of Problem Solving in Small Groups. ' In the summer of195!?," "under a grant fro.FthT*Social Science Research Council,I performed an experimental study of some aspects of problem-solving behavior and influence relationships in three-personlaboratory groups. Thin research was modeled after March'sinfluence studies, and was supervised by him.

Reference* J. G. March and E. Feigenbaum, "The Latent Motives,Group Discussion, and Quality of Group Decisionsin a Non-Objective Decision Problem," unpublishedmanuscript (available from the authors).

DOCTORAL DISSIPATIONt Inforraation Theories of Human Verbal Learning

This dissertation project lias as its purpose the study of humanperception and memorization in terms of infonatlon processes forrecognizing, manipulating, organizing, and storing inforation symbols.The methodology employed in the study involves the use of a digitalcomputer to simulate these information processes. The computeris then used as a tool for exploration of the modal. Implicationsof the mechanisms used in the simulation to the artificial intelligenceproblem and to certain applications in computer science and managementscience are explored.

OTHER RESEARCH, RESEARCH TRAINING ACTIVITIES, .AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1. The Rand Corporation—SAGE Project (attemtp to computer-automate,at least partially, the U.S. air defense system).

During recent summers I have been enployed by the Rand Corporationto investigate the possible applications of the newly-developingtechnology :ln complex irrformation processing to:

a. The development of SAGE programming Languages.

b. The incorporation in the SAGE program of the concept ofhexirlstical search and decision procedures.

2. IBM Scientific Computing Center, New Tork.This involved three months training in the use of the IBM 650

rs.

3. HigL For three undergraduate years, I taughtpart-tii ite high school in Pittsburgh, In this

us subjects, from English (all four years),and ether studies, to science and mathematics.