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Cliff Shaw

Also Known As John Clifford Shaw
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Cliff Shaw was a systems programmer at the RAND Corporation. He is a coauthor of the Logic Theorist, generally regarded as the first artificial intelligence program, and was one of the developers of the General Problem Solver and the Information Processing Language, a programming language of the 1950s.

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Birth Year
1922 1
Birth Date
1922-02-23 2
Death Year
1991 2
Death Date
1991-02-09 2
Cliff Shaw
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Source Information Processing Language (Wikipedia)
Source Wikidata: JOSS
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1. IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneers: John Clifford Shaw
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Born 1922, died February 9, 1991
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2. Wikipedia: Cliff Shaw
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    John Clifford Shaw (February 23, 1922 - February 9, 1991) was a systems programmer at the RAND Corporation.
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Wikidata: Cliff Shaw
  • Wikidata Q4391903, resolved via en.wikipedia pageprops (wave rule R-L)
  • Wikidata Q4391903 P569 (date of birth)
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Information Processing Language (Wikipedia)
Invented: IPL (Information Processing Language), Infobox: designer
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Allen Newell, Cliff Shaw, Herbert A. Simon
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