John McCarthy was an American computer scientist who coined the term artificial intelligence for the 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project he organized, a gathering historians treat alongside that year's MIT symposium as marking the start of both artificial intelligence and cognitive science. McCarthy went on to invent the Lisp programming language in 1958, a language built around symbolic list processing that became the standard tool for early artificial intelligence research, and to develop early concepts of time-sharing computing at Stanford University's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, which he founded.
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John McCarthy (September 4, 1927 – October 24, 2011) was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist.
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At this time, primitive computers had been around for only a few years, but pioneers such as John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Allen Newell, and Herbert Simon were founding the field of artificial intelligence.
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was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist.
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Known for Artificial intelligence, Lisp, circumscription, situation calculus
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He received many accolades and honors, such as the 1971 Turing Award for his contributions to the topic of AI, the United States National Medal of Science, and the Kyoto Prize.
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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.
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Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dartmouth College, Princeton University
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Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dartmouth College, Princeton University
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Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dartmouth College, Princeton University
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Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dartmouth College, Princeton University
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Turing Award (1971) Computer Pioneer Award (1985) IJCAI Award for Research Excellence (1985) Kyoto Prize (1988) National Medal of Science (1990) Benjamin Franklin Medal (2003)
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Turing Award (1971) Computer Pioneer Award (1985) IJCAI Award for Research Excellence (1985) Kyoto Prize (1988) National Medal of Science (1990) Benjamin Franklin Medal (2003)
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