John McCarthy (computer scientist)
John McCarthy (born
September 4,
1927 in Boston,
Massachusetts), is a prominent
computer scientist whose major contributions to the field of
artificial intelligence saw him receive the
Turing Award in
1971. McCarthy invented the
Lisp programming language, publishing its design in
Communications of the ACM in 1960.
McCarthy received his B.S. in Mathematics from the California Institute of Technology in 1948, and his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Princeton University in 1951.
He has retired and is now a Professor Emeritus at Stanford University.
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