John McCarthy

Born

September 4, 1927

Died

October 24, 2011 (aged 84)

Known as

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

John McCarthy 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.

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