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McCarthy, John

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Professor John McCarthy is a mathematician, computer scientist, and cognitive scientist; a pioneer in mathematical theory of computation, artificial intelligence (he created the term Artificial Intelligence), and computer programming languages: he invented (some say discovered) Lisp in 1958, one of the oldest and highest level languages, arguably the oldest language in active use today, and maybe [MORE]


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1. John McCarthy - Home page of pioneer in mathematical theory of computation, artificial intelligence, programming languages: invented Lisp, arguably the oldest language in active use today, and maybe the oldest high-level language overall, along with Fortran. (Stanford Univ., USA)
2. ACM: A.M. Turing Award: John McCarthy - The Association for Computing Machinery gave McCarthy the prestigious Alan M. Turing Award in 1971: For research on artificial intelligence, an area in which he has achieved considerable recognition for his work.
3. John McArthy on Modal Logic - Describes some of his latest work on how modal calculi describe several possible worlds at once, instead of just one; photo, examples.
4. John McCarthy - Short biography. [Smart Computing]
5. John McCarthy (Computer Scientist) - Short biography with links to many articles on related topics.

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