{"product_id":"models-of-my-life-mit-press-9780262691857","title":"Models of My Life (Mit Press)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this candid and witty autobiography  Nobel laureate Herbert A. Simon looks at his distinguished and varied career  continually asking himself whether (and how) what he learned as a scientist helps to explain other aspects of his life. A brilliant polymath in an age of increasing specialization  Simon is one of those rare scholars whose work defines fields of inquiry. Crossing disciplinary lines in half a dozen fields  Simons story encompasses an explosion in the information sciences  the transformation of psychology by the information-processing paradigm  and the use of computer simulation for modeling the behavior of highly complex systems. Simons theory of bounded rationality led to a Nobel Prize in economics  and his work on building machines that thinkbased on the notion that human intelligence is the rule-governed manipulation of symbolslaid conceptual foundations for the new cognitive science. Subsequently  contrasting metaphors of the maze (Simons view) and of the mind (neural nets) have dominated the artificial intelligence debate. There is also a warm account of his successful marriage and of an unconsummated love affair  letters to his children  columns  a short story  and political and personal intrigue in academe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666243215413,"sku":"ByrdShop_026269185X","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780262691857.jpg?v=1782424723","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/models-of-my-life-mit-press-9780262691857","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}