Editing Cliff Shaw

{{short description|Computer scientist}}
{{for|the Canadian football player|Cliff Shaw (Canadian football)}}{{Infobox person
| name               = John Clifford Shaw
| caption            = Systems programmer
| birth_date         = {{birth date|1922|2|23}}
| death_date         = {{death date and age|1991|2|9|1922|2|23}}
| occupation         = Systems programmer
| years_active       = 1950s–1990s
| known_for          = [[Logic Theorist]], [[General Problem Solver]], [[Information Processing Language]], [[linked list]]
}}
'''John Clifford Shaw''' (February 23, 1922 – February 9, 1991)<ref>{{cite web |title=John Clifford Shaw Papers |url=http://sirismm.si.edu/archivcenter/findingaids/AC0580.pdf |accessdate=March 14, 2012 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402203336/http://sirismm.si.edu/archivcenter/findingaids/AC0580.pdf |archivedate=April 2, 2012}}</ref> was a [[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 [[General Problem Solver]] (universal problem [[Solver (computer science)|solver]] machine) and [[Information Processing Language]] (a [[programming language]] of the 1950s). Information Processing Language is considered the true "father" of the [[JOSS]] language.<ref name="hopl">{{cite book |editor-last=Wexelblat |editor-first=Richard L. |year=1981 |title=History of Programming Languages |publisher=Academic Press |location=New York |isbn=0-12-745040-8 |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofprogram0000hist |url-access=registration}}</ref> One of the most significant events that occurred in the programming was the development of the concept of list processing by [[Allen Newell]], [[Herbert A. Simon]] and Cliff Shaw during the development of the language [[Information Processing Language|IPL-V]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Sammet |first=Jean E. |year=1969 |title=Programming Languages: History and Fundamentals |publisher=Prentice Hall |location=Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey |isbn=0-13-729988-5}}</ref> He invented the [[linked list]],<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Newell |first1=A |last2=Shaw |first2=J. C. |title=Programming the Logic Theory Machine |journal=Papers Presented at the February 26-28, 1957, Western Joint Computer Conference: Techniques for Reliability |date=1957 |pages=230–240 |doi=10.1145/1455567.1455606 |ref=LTM|doi-access=free }}</ref> which remains fundamental in many strands of modern computing technology.

==References==
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==External links==
*Simon, Herbert A. [https://web.archive.org/web/20050101091320/http://stills.nap.edu/readingroom/books/biomems/anewell.html Allen Newell] - a referenced biography of Newell and Shaw at the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]].
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