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was an American mathematician and pioneer in computer programming languages, artificial intelligence, and the development of on-line, interactive, time-sharing computers. He worked for the [|RAND Corporation], 1950-1971, where he completed his most significant work.
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 * [[image:CliffShaw.jpg link="http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/November/7/"]] ||~  || **John Clifford (Cliff ) Shaw**, (1922–1991)

In the 1950s, he collaborated with the Carnegie Mellon University researchers Herbert Simon and Allen Newell on developing computer programs that attempted to simulate human decision-making. Shaw wrote the programming language known as [|Information Processing Language] (IPL) for the Chess program NSS (and other programs) for a [|Johnniac computer]. || toc =Selected Publications=
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 * 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

=External Links=
 * [|Cliff Shaw from Wikipedia]
 * [|John Clifford Shaw's Papers]
 * [|Cliff Shaw] from The Computer History Museum

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