NSS

an early chess program developed in the the late 1950s by Carnegie Mellon University researchers Allen Newell and Herbert Simon, and Cliff Shaw at [|RAND Corporation]. NSS ran on the [|JOHNNIAC] (short for **Joh**n v. **N**eumann **N**umerical **I**ntegrator and **A**utomatic **C**omputer), and was written in a high-level language developed by Shaw, known as [|Information Processing Language] (IPL). It already used branch-and-bounds as an approximation to the alpha-beta algorithm. || toc =Photos= together with Cliff Shaw (not shown) at the [|RAND Corporation], were early pioneers in the field of artificial intelligence and chess software. The NSS program ran on the [|Johnniac] computer ... ||
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 * [[image:180px-Johnniac.jpg link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Johnniac.jpg"]] ||~  || **NSS Chess Program**, (Newell, Shaw, and Simon, also mentioned as Newell CP )
 * JOHNNIAC ||~  ||^   ||
 * [[image:2-3a.Carnegie_Mellon_University.Newell-Allen_Simon-Herbert.19XX.L062302007.CMU.lg.jpg width="560" link="http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-431e1a07cf7a1"]] ||
 * In the late 1950s, Carnegie Mellon University researchers Allen Newell (r) and Herbert Simon (l),

=Description= given by Paul Rushton and Tony Marsland in 1973 :

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=Quotes= Bill Wall

=See also=
 * Acronym
 * Mater

=Publications=
 * Allen Newell, Cliff Shaw, Herbert Simon (**1958**). //Chess Playing Programs and the Problem of Complexity//. IBM Journal of Research and Development, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 320-335. Reprinted (1963) in [|Computers and Thought] (eds. Edward Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman), pp. 39-70. McGraw-Hill, New York, N.Y. [|pdf]
 * Allen Newell, Cliff Shaw, Herbert Simon (**1959**). //Report on a general problem-solving program//. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Processing, pp. 256-264
 * Walter R. Reitman (**1967**). //[|Modeling the formation and use of concepts, percepts, and rules]//. [|Proceedings of the Fifth Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability, Volume 4: Biology and Problems of Health], [|pdf] from [|Project Euclid - mathematics and statistics resources online]
 * Paul Rushton, Tony Marsland (**1973**). //Current Chess Programs: A Summary of their Potential and Limitations//. INFOR Journal of the Canadian Information Processing Society Vol. 11, No. 1, [|pdf]

=External Links=
 * [|Classic Computer Chess - ... The programs of yesteryear] by Carey, hosted by the [|Internet Archive]
 * [|Johnniac at computerhistory.org]

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