Newell, Allen, 1927-1992

Scope and Contents The Allen Newell Collection comprises 119 boxes (119 cu. ft.) of paper-based material arranged in 12 topical series. The collection also contains twelve boxes (12 cu. ft.) of audio cassettes, 35mm slides, videotapes, photographic negatives, glass plate (lantern) slides, and computer tapes.The collection includes: scientific papers, project reports, manuals and proposals by Newell, his CMU colleagues and others; computer programming instructions, printouts, and cognitive...

Overview

This collection pertains to the development of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. The collection consists of 9 boxes of materials and includes a selection of video-taped lectures from the early 1970s.