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unusual facts about Herbert A. Shepard


Herbert A. Shepard

In management consulting, Herb's clients included Bell-Northern Research, Syncrude, Esso, TRW, Connecticut General Life Insurance Company, Union Carbide, USAID and most of the departments of the federal governments of the U.S.A. and Canada.


Bloomberg Businessweek

Stephen B. Shepard served as editor-in-chief from 1984 until 2005 when he was chosen to be the founding dean of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.

Chris Welles

Stephen B. Shepard, a former editor of BusinessWeek and later dean of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism called Welles "probably the premier business writer" of his generation, citing his ability to identify the "shenanigans, abuses and downfalls" in the business world.

David H. Shepard

In 1952 he formed Intelligent Machines Research Corporation to commercialize the invention with William Lawless Jr. in Arlington, Virginia.

Devils Tower

A painting depicting this legend by artist Herbert A. Collins hangs over the fireplace in the visitor's center at Devils Tower.

Edward M. Shepard

He then studied law with John Edward Parsons, was admitted to the bar in 1875, and formed a partnership with Albert Stickney.

At the United States Senate election in New York, 1911, Shepard was favored by the "Insurgent" Democrats, led by State Senator Franklin D. Roosevelt.

EPAM

Originally designed by Herbert A. Simon and Edward Feigenbaum to simulate phenomena in verbal learning, it has been later adapted to account for data on the psychology of expertise and concept formation.

General Problem Solver

General Problem Solver (GPS) was a computer program created in 1959 by Herbert A. Simon, J.C. Shaw, and Allen Newell intended to work as a universal problem solver machine.

GOFAI

The approach is based on the assumption that many aspects of intelligence can be achieved by the manipulation of symbols, an assumption defined as the "physical symbol systems hypothesis" by Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon in the middle 1960s.

Hagerman High School

The Senior Class of 1919 commissioned a landscape by noted artist Herbert A. Collins of Stanley Lake in the Sawtooth Range, which was presented to the school.

Harold Garfinkel

This brought him in contact with some of the most prominent scholars of the day in the behavioral, informational, and social sciences including: Gregory Bateson, Kenneth Burke, Paul Lazarsfeld, Frederick Mosteller, Philip Selznick, Herbert A. Simon, and John von Neumann.

Herbert A. Wagner

He is most famous for Wagner's function describing unsteady lift on wings and developing the Henschel Hs 293 glide bomb.

Hubert Dreyfus's views on artificial intelligence

These are the skills that Newell and Simon had demonstrated with both psychological experiments and computer programs.

This expanded on ideas from What Computers Can't Do, where he had made a similar argument criticizing the "cognitive simulation" school of AI research practiced by Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon in the 1960s.

Idaho State Capitol

Twenty portraits of Idaho territorial and state Governors painted by artist Herbert A. Collins in 1911 are on display.

Indiana Landmarks

Landmarks' honorary board chair is Indiana's former Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard.

Intelligent Machines Research Corporation

Intelligent Machines Research Corporation (IMR) was founded by David H. Shepard and William Lawless, Jr. in 1952 to commercialize the work Shepard had done with the help of Harvey Cook in building "Gismo", a machine later called the "Analyzing Reader".

James W. Dawes

Between 1885 and 1890, Dawes' portrait was painted in Omaha by artist Herbert A. Collins.

L'Inconnue de la Seine

U-Boat commander Herbert A. Werner mentions having a copy of the cast on his wall in his parents' house in his memoir Iron Coffins

Louis C. Shepard

During that time he participated in the Battle of Rich Mountain in Randolph County, Virginia (now West Virginia).

Mapledurham House

It is also reputed to have been the inspiration for E. H. Shepard's illustrations of Toad Hall for Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, although this is also claimed by Hardwick House.

Mary Shepard

She was the daughter of E. H. Shepard, a famous illustrator of children's literature including Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne and The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame.

Neats vs. scruffies

The distinction was originally made by Roger Schank in the mid-1970s to characterize the difference between his work on natural language processing (which represented commonsense knowledge in the form of large amorphous semantic networks) from the work of John McCarthy, Allen Newell, Herbert A. Simon, Robert Kowalski and others whose work was based on logic and formal extensions of logic.

Newell Simon Hall

Newell Simon Hall is in the northwestern part of the Carnegie Mellon campus named after the late Herbert A. Simon and Allen Newell.

POSDCORB

In 1946 and 1947, prominent Public Administration scholars such as Robert Dahl, Dwight Waldo, and Herbert A. Simon released articles and books criticising POSDCORB and the principles notion.

Randall T. Shepard

Randall Terry Shepard (b. December 24, 1946) is a former Chief Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court.

William Whiteley

In his autobiography, Drawn From Memory, E. H. Shepard said the fire could be seen from Highgate Hill, and some days later when he and his brother Cyril were allowed to visit Westbourne Grove, that, "The long front of the shop was a sorry sight with part of the wall fallen and the rest blackened."

Woodland House

Winner's art collection included works by Jan Micker, William James, Edmund Dulac, E. H. Shepard, Arthur Rackham, Kay Nielsen and Beatrix Potter.


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