Editing Edward Feigenbaum (section)

==Education and early life==
Feigenbaum was born in [[Weehawken, New Jersey]] in 1936 to a culturally [[Jewish]] family, and moved to nearby [[North Bergen, New Jersey|North Bergen]], where he lived until the age of 16, when he left to start college.<ref name=a-full-interview>{{cite news|last=Len Shustek|title=An Interview with Ed Feigenbaum|url=http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/6/92472-an-interview-with-ed-feigenbaum/fulltext|access-date=14 October 2013|newspaper=[[Communications of the ACM]]}}</ref><ref name=Knuth2007>[[Donald Knuth|Knuth, Don]]. [http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2012/04/102658162-05-01-acc.pdf "Oral History of Edward Feigenbaum''], [[Computer History Museum]], 2007. Accessed October 23, 2015. "I was born in Weehawken, New Jersey, which is a town on the Palisades opposite New York. In fact, it’s the place where the Lincoln Tunnel dives under the water and comes up in New York. Then my parents moved up the Palisades four miles to a town called North Bergen, and there I lived until I was 16 and went off to Carnegie Tech."</ref> His hometown did not have a secondary school of its own, and so he chose [[Weehawken High School]] for its college preparatory program.<ref name=Knuth2007/><ref>[[Joshua Lederberg|Lederberg, Joshua]]. [https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ps/access/BBALYP.pdf "How DENDRAL was conceived and born"], [[United States National Library of Medicine]], November 5, 1987. Accessed October 23, 2015. "I became an expert on its use. I even remember dragging it with me miles on the bus to Weehawken High School, heavy as it was, just to show off my skill with this marvelous technology that no other kid in the high school knew anything about."</ref> He was inducted into his high school's hall of fame in 1996.<ref>Hague, Jim. [http://www.hudsonreporter.com/view/full_story/2362426/article-Academic-awards-aplenty--Weehawken-honors-top-students--inducts-Pasquale-into-Hall-of-Fame "Academic awards aplenty; Weehawken honors top students, inducts Pasquale into Hall of Fame"], ''[[Hudson Reporter]]'', May 13, 2000. Accessed October 23, 2015. "Edward Feigenbaum (Class of '53) in 1996"</ref>

Feigenbaum completed his undergraduate degree (1956), and a [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] (1960),<ref name=mathgene>{{MathGenealogy |id=61956 |title=Edward Albert Feigenbaum}}</ref><ref name=aigene>{{AIGenealogy |id=300 |title=Edward A. Feigenbaum}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|title=ProQuest Document ID 301899261 |journal=[[ProQuest Dissertations and Theses]] |id={{ProQuest|301899261}} }}</ref> at Carnegie Institute of Technology (now [[Carnegie Mellon University]]). In his PhD thesis, carried out under the supervision of [[Herbert A. Simon]], he developed [[EPAM]], one of the first computer models of how people learn.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cdn.calisphere.org/data/13030/hc/kt500039hc/files/kt500039hc.pdf |title=Guide to the Edward A. Feigenbaum Papers |publisher=[[Stanford University]] |year=2010 |page=2 |access-date=September 12, 2011}}</ref>

During undergrad years, he took a graduate-level course called "Ideas and Social Change" taught by [[James G. March|James March]]. March introduced him to Herbert Simon. Feigenbaum took a course "Mathematical Models in the Social Sciences" taught by Simon, where Simon announced the [[Logic Theorist]] with "Over the Christmas holidays, Al Newell and I invented a thinking machine." Simon gave Feigenbaum a manual of [[IBM 701]], which he read in one night. Feigenbaum later called it a "born-again experience".<ref>{{Cite journal |last=McCorduck |first=Pamela |date=2022-01-01 |title=The Scientific Life of Edward A. Feigenbaum |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9714194 |journal=IEEE Annals of the History of Computing |volume=44 |issue=1 |pages=123–128 |doi=10.1109/MAHC.2022.3145216 |issn=1058-6180}}</ref>