John McCarthy

John McCarthy

Name: John McCarthy

Born: September 4, 1927, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Death: October 24, 2011 (Age: 84)

Computer-related contributions

American computer scientist and cognitive scientist.

Coined the term "artificial intelligence," also known as AI.

Created the Lisp programming language family, influenced the design of the ALGOL programming language, and made timesharing popular.

Significant publications

Programs with Common Sense. In Proceedings of the Teddington Conference on the Mechanization of Thought Processes (1959).

Recursive functions of symbolic expressions and their computation by machine (1960).

A basis for a mathematical theory of computation. In Computer Programming and formal systems (1963).

Situations, actions, and causal laws. Technical report, Stanford University (1963).

Some philosophical problems from the standpoint of artificial intelligence (1969).

Epistemological problems of artificial intelligence (1977).

Circumscription: A form of non-monotonic reasoning (1980).

Honors and awards

Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (1971).

Kyoto Prize (1988).

National Medal of Science (USA) in Mathematical, Statistical, and Computational Sciences (1990).
Inducted as a Fellow of the Computer History Museum (1999).

Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science from the Franklin Institute (2003).

Inducted into IEEE Intelligent Systems' AI's Hall of Fame, for the "significant contributions to the field of AI and intelligent systems" (2011).

Quotes

"When there's a will to fail, obstacles can be found."

"He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense."


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