General Problem Solver
The General Problem Solver (GPS) was an AI program proposed by Herbert Simon, J.C. Shaw, and Allen Newell. It was the first useful computer program that came into existence in the AI world. The goal was to make it work as a universal problem-solving machine. Of course there were many software programs that existed before, but these programs performed specific tasks. GPS was the first program that was intended to solve any general problem. GPS was supposed to solve all the problems using the same base algorithm for every problem.
As you must have realized, this is quite an uphill battle! To program the GPS, the authors created a new language called Information Processing Language (IPL). The basic premise is to express ...
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