| gptkbp:instanceOf | gptkb:person 
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                                | gptkbp:almaMater | gptkb:Stanford_University 
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                                | gptkbp:award | gptkb:IEEE_Fellow gptkb:AAAI_Fellow
 gptkb:IEEE_Neural_Networks_Pioneer_Award
 gptkb:IJCAI_Award_for_Research_Excellence
 
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                                | gptkbp:birthDate | 1933-02-06 
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                                | gptkbp:birthPlace | gptkb:Saginaw,_Michigan,_USA 
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                                | gptkbp:deathDate | 2019-04-23 
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                                | gptkbp:deathPlace | gptkb:Medford,_Oregon,_USA 
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                                | gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor | gptkb:Bernard_Widrow 
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                                | gptkbp:employer | gptkb:Stanford_University 
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                                | gptkbp:field | gptkb:artificial_intelligence gptkb:machine_learning
 robotics
 
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                                | gptkbp:fullName | Nils John Nilsson 
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                                | gptkbp:knownFor | gptkb:Shakey_the_robot gptkb:A*_search_algorithm
 contributions to artificial intelligence
 
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                                | gptkbp:memberOf | gptkb:National_Academy_of_Engineering gptkb:American_Association_for_Artificial_Intelligence
 
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                                | gptkbp:nationality | gptkb:American 
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                                | gptkbp:notableStudent | gptkb:Richard_Duda gptkb:Peter_E._Hart
 
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                                | gptkbp:occupation | gptkb:computer_scientist 
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                                | gptkbp:position | Kumagai Professor of Engineering, Emeritus 
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                                | gptkbp:publishedWork | Artificial Intelligence: A New Synthesis Principles of Artificial Intelligence
 The Quest for Artificial Intelligence
 
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                                | gptkbp:spouse | Grace Abbott Nilsson 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsParent | gptkb:A_Formal_Basis_for_the_Heuristic_Determination_of_Minimum_Cost_Paths gptkb:Logical_Foundations_of_Artificial_Intelligence
 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsLayer | 7 
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                                | https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label | Nils J. Nilsson 
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