To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own – it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality.
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| Birth: | 1922 |
| Death: | 1991 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Programmer |
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John Clifford Shaw was an American systems programmer at the RAND Corporation. He is a coauthor of the first artificial intelligence program, the Logic Theorist, and was one of the developers of Information Processing Language, a programming language of the 1950s. He invented the linked list, on which almost all of computer technology now depends.
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