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Nils John Nilsson
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Nils John Nilsson was an American computer scientist and one of the founding researchers in the discipline of artificial intelligence. He was the first Kumagai Professor of Engineering in computer science at Stanford University from 1991 until his retirement, and is particularly known for his contributions to search, planning, knowledge representation and robotics.
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AwardIEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award 1 AwardIJCAI Award for Research Excellence 1 Nils John Nilsson
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Nils John Nilsson (February 6, 1933 - April 23, 2019) was an American computer scientist.
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Peter Hart, Nils Nilsson and Bertram Raphael of Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International) first published the algorithm in 1968.
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Peter Hart, Nils Nilsson and Bertram Raphael of Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International) first published the algorithm in 1968.
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