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John McCarthy Dead

John McCarthy
KindPerson
Born1927
Died2011
StatusDead
Fieldprogramming languages
Sourcewww-formal.stanford.edu ↗

Designed Lisp (1958), coined the term artificial intelligence, and invented time-sharing.

Created LISP Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions

Invented Lisp (1958), coined 'artificial intelligence' (1956), proposed time-sharing, and wrote the 'Recursive Functions' paper (1960) that made symbolic computation a field.\n\nTuring Award 1971. Also invented garbage collection and the eval function Russell implemented — the REPL's origin.

Sources

  1. www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_(computer_scientist)