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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. [1] He co-authored the document that coined the term "artificial intelligence" (AI), developed the programming language family Lisp, significantly influenced the design of the language ALGOL, popularized time ...
Sep 4, 2020 · – John McCarthy, (1969)[11] A Young Genius. John McCarthy was born in Boston, Massachusetts, U. S., to his father John Patrick, an Irish immigrant, and his mother Ida (Glatt) McCarthy, a Lithuanian Jewish. The family was obliged to relocate frequently during the Great Depression, until McCarthy’s father found work in Los Angeles, California.
Aug 31, 2024 · John McCarthy, American mathematician and computer scientist who was a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence (AI); his research involved the formalization of commonsense knowledge. He coined the term ‘artificial intelligence’ in 1955 and created the computer programming language LISP in 1958.
Oct 25, 2011 · John McCarthy, a professor emeritus of computer science at Stanford, the man who coined the term "artificial intelligence" and subsequently went on to define the field for more than five decades, died suddenly at his home in Stanford in the early morning Monday, Oct. 24. He was 84.
Oct 24, 2011 · Welcome to John McCarthy's (Sept 4, 1927 - Oct 24, 2011) new website. John was a legendary computer scientist at Stanford University who developed time-sharing, invented LISP, and founded the field of Artificial Intelligence. In March 2011 John launched Project JMC with the objective to make his work more approachable and accessible. The ...
Circumscription—a form of non-monotonic reasoning. J McCarthy. Artificial intelligence 13 (1), 27-39. , 1980. 3560. 1980. Recursive functions of symbolic expressions and their computation by machine. J McCarthy. 2681 *.
Oct 24, 2011 · John McCarthy was born September 4, 1927 in Boston, Massachusetts to immigrant parents. His father, John Patrick McCarthy, was an Irish Catholic who became a labor organizer and later the Business Manager of the Daily Worker, a national newspaper owned by the Communist Party USA. His mother, Ida Glatt, was a Lithuanian Jewish immigrant who worked for a wire service, then for the Daily Worker ...
Contributions and Impact. John paved the way for the some of the worlds transformative technologies: programming languages, the Internet, the web, and robots. He conceived and developed time-sharing, invented the first programming language for symbolic computation LISP, and coined the term "Artificial Intelligence".
John McCarthy was a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. He was interested in developing systems that exhibited human-level intelligence since 1948 and coined the term "Artificial Intelligence" in 1955, five years after Alan Turing proposed the Turing Test for Intelligence. John's key contributions to the field of Artificial ...
His articles are on John McCarthy's main web page. McCarthy received the A. M. Turing award of the Association for Computing Machinery in 1971 and was elected President of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence for 1983-84 and is a Fellow of that organization. He received the first Research Excellence Award of the International ...
