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Birth
Born 4/9/1927 in Boston, MA. Father was John Patrick and mother was Ida McCarthy -
B.S in Mathematics
McCarthy received his B.S in Mathematics at California Institute of Technology. -
PhD in Mathematics
John McCarthy received his PhD in Mathematics from Princeton University -
Birth of Artificial Intelligence
John McCarthy proposed and coined Artificial Intelligence while at the Dartmouth Workshop -
Developed LISP
Second oldest programming language and is still used today as the preferred language for artificial intelligence. -
Created Garbage Collection
Garbage Collection is a program to remove excess memory to aid the large amounts of memory used by LISP. The memory is automatically removed. -
Programs with Common Sense
John McCarthy authored the paper which laid out his philosophy about artificial intelligence including the program "Advice Taker" -
First time-sharing computer system
[http://jmc.stanford.edu/computing-science/timesharing.html]
Process that allowed operating systems to allow multiple users on the same program while using different computers. -
Professor at MIT
Received full professorship at MIT after years of Assistant Professor and associate Professor experience -
Soviet Union Chess Series
McCarthy hosted multiple computer chess matches with Russia via telegraph. He lost two and drew two. -
ACM Turing Award
Referred to as the "Nobel prize of Computing" and is the highest distinction in computer science. -
Kyoto Prize
Internationally renowned award for significant contribution in science and technology. -
National Medal of Science
Presidential award given to those with significant contributions to various areas of study. -
Benjamin Franklin Award
Highest honor given for independent publishers given by Independent Book Publishers Association. -
Launched Project JMC
Project launched my McCarthy to allow easy access to his work.
[http://jmc.stanford.edu/index.html] -
Artificial Intelligence in Action
IBM Watson Supercomputer beat Jeopardy's elite contestants -
Death
Died in Stanford, MA after being married three times and had a total of three children
