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General Problem Solver

Era: Birth of AI · 1950s–1970s

Newell and Simon developed the General Problem Solver (GPS) from 1957 to 1959, with collaborators including J. C. Shaw. It was the first AI program to attempt to simulate human problem-solving by separating the problem-solving technique from the knowledge of the specific problem domain, using goal decomposition and sub-goal search (means-ends analysis).

Allen Newell & Herbert Simon

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  1. Elements of a theory of human problem solving

    Psychological Review · Source type: paper

    Newell, Shaw and Simon set out the problem-solving programme the General Problem Solver was built on.

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