John McCarthy

1927 - 2011

country of citizenship: United States of America

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: California Institute of Technology, Princeton University, Belmont High School

occupation: mathematician, computer scientist, engineer, university teacher, artificial intelligence researcher

award received: Turing Award, Benjamin Franklin Medal, National Medal of Science, Computer History Museum fellow, IJCAI Award for Research Excellence, Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology, Computer Pioneer Award, Programming Languages Achievement Award, Kyoto Prize, AAAI Fellow, CSS Fellow, ACM Fellow

student of: Solomon Lefschetz

official website: www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/

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. 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-sharing, and invented 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. Source: Wikipedia (en)