What Does John McCarthy Mean?
John McCarthy was a computer and cognitive scientist most notable for his great contributions in the field of artificial intelligence, where he is considered as one of the founders. He also coined the term “artificial intelligence” and developed Lisp, one of the earliest programming languages, which is favored for use in AI research. He received the Turing Award for his contributions in AI, the Kyoto Prize and the United States National Medal of Science, among many other honors and accolades.
Techopedia Explains John McCarthy
John McCarthy was computer scientist born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1927. He graduated two years early from high school and then was subsequently accepted at the California Institute of Technology in 1944 where received his BS in mathematics in 1948. It was here that he found his inspiration for his future endeavors, when he attended a lecture by John von Neumann. In 1951, he received his PhD in mathematics from Princeton University. He then became an assistant professor at Dartmouth in 1955 and an MIT Research Fellow the following year. In 1962, McCarthy finally became a full professor at Stanford University where he stayed until his retirement in 2000. He passed away on October 24, 2011.
