John Clifford Shaw (February 23, 1922 – February 9, 1991) was a systems programmer at the RAND Corporation. He is a coauthor of the first

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program, the

Logic Theorist Logic Theorist is a computer program written in 1956 by Allen Newell, Herbert A. Simon, and Cliff Shaw. , and It was the first program deliberately engineered to perform automated reasoning and is called "the first artificial intelligence prog ...

, and was one of the developers of

General Problem Solver General Problem Solver (GPS) is a computer program created in 1959 by Herbert A. Simon, J. C. Shaw, and Allen Newell (RAND Corporation) intended to work as a universal problem solver machine. In contrast to the former Logic Theorist project, the ...

(universal problem

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machine) and

Information Processing Language Information Processing Language (IPL) is a programming language created by Allen Newell, Cliff Shaw, and Herbert A. Simon at RAND Corporation and the Carnegie Institute of Technology about 1956. Newell had the job of language specifier-applicat ...

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of the 1950s). It is considered the true "father" of the

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language. One of the most significant events that occurred in the programming was the development of the concept of list processing by Allen Newell,

Herbert A. Simon Herbert Alexander Simon (June 15, 1916 – February 9, 2001) was an American political scientist, with a Ph.D. in political science, whose work also influenced the fields of computer science, economics, and cognitive psychology. His primary ...

and Cliff Shaw during the development of the language IPL-V. He invented the linked list, which remains fundamental in many strands of modern computing technology.

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*Simon, Herbert A
Allen Newell
- a referenced biography of Newell and Shaw at the National Academy of Sciences. * People in information technology History of artificial intelligence Carnegie Mellon University faculty Place of birth missing 1922 births 1991 deaths {{compu-bio-stub