Works
- Report on a General Problem-Solving Program, Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Processing (with Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon), 1959
In Thinking Tools
Known for
A RAND Corporation programmer who, with Allen Newell and Herbert Simon, wrote the Logic Theorist and the General Problem Solver, the program that first implemented means-ends analysis: compare the current state with the goal and choose an operator that reduces the difference.