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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 1
Death Year
1991 1
Death Date
1991-02-09 1
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1. 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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