General Problem Solver
1959 program by Newell, Shaw, and Simon that used means-ends analysis to solve problems, influencing decades of AI planning research.
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Herbert A. Simon predicts machines will be capable of any work a human can do, within twenty years
In 1965, Herbert A. Simon of Carnegie Mellon University published 'The Shape of Automation for Men and Management', in which he predicted that machines would, within twenty years, be capable of performing any cognitive task a human could perform, a claim that became one of the most cited and scrutinised forecasts in the history of artificial intelligence.
General Problem Solver introduced by Newell, Shaw and Simon
In 1959, Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon at the RAND Corporation and Carnegie Institute of Technology, with J. C. Shaw, presented the General Problem Solver, a computer program that separated problem-solving strategy from domain knowledge using means–ends analysis.