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John McCarthy

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American computer scientist and cognitive scientist (1927-2011)

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John McCarthy (1927–2011) was an American mathematician, computer scientist, engineer, and university teacher. Born in Boston and educated at the California Institute of Technology and Princeton University, he worked at Princeton University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Stanford University. His field of work included artificial intelligence, and he participated in the Dartmouth workshop. He was an atheist and served in the United States Army.

McCarthy received the Turing Award, Benjamin Franklin Medal, National Medal of Science, and Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, and Association for Computing Machinery. His doctoral advisor was Donald C. Spencer, and his students included Raj Reddy, Barbara Liskov, Ruzena Bajcsy, and Hans Moravec. His archives are held at the Computer History Museum.

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Instance of
human
Given name
John
Family name
McCarthy
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Boston
Place of death
Stanford
Employer
Stanford University
Languages spoken
English language
Religion
atheism
Award
ACM Fellow
Notable work
Artificial intelligence
Participant in
Dartmouth workshop
Doctoral advisor
Donald C. Spencer
Student of
Solomon Lefschetz
Doctoral student
Hans Moravec
Field of work
Artificial intelligence
Military branch
United States Army
Official website
www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/
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John McCarthy (computer scientist)
date of birth
1927-09-04
date of death
2011-10-24
member of
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Erdős number
4
archives at
Computer History Museum
cause of death
myocardial infarction
manner of death
natural causes
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WikiProject Mathematics
place of burial
Alta Mesa Memorial Park
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John McCarthy (September 4, 1927 – October 24, 2011) was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist. He was one of the founders of the discipline of artificial intelligence, and part of just a small group of artificial intelligence researchers in the 1950s and 1960s. He co-authored the proposal for the Dartmouth workshop which coined the term "artificial intelligence" (AI), led the development of the symbolic programming language family Lisp and had a large influence in the language ALGOL, popularized time-sharing, and created garbage collection.

McCarthy spent most of his career at Stanford University. He received many accolades and honors, such as the 1971 Turing Award for his contributions to the topic of AI, the United States National Medal of Science, and the Kyoto Prize.

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