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John McCarthy Born
John McCarthy was born in Boston Massachusetts -
John McCarthy graduates from the California Institute of Technology (Cal-Tech)
Earned B.S in Mathematics -
Studied automata models with John von Neuman
Also met Marvin Lee Minsky, from there they later started the AI lab at MIT. -
Graduates from Princeton with ph.D in Mathematics
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Worked at Bell Labs
Studied machine intelligence with Shannon. -
First Idea of Artificial Intelligence
McCarthy started a summer research project on the ideea of Artificial Intelligence. -
Programs with Common Sense
McCarthy wrote "Programs with Common Sense" where he mentions his ideas of Artificial Intelligence. -
Professor at MIT/ LISP
As a professor at MIT, McCarthy began to study the idea of a "lisp processor" -
Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine"
McCarthy publishes his paper, in which he talks about LISP as a universal language, as well as LISP being the language of choice for artificial intelligence research. -
creation of CTSS
In 1962, McCarthy at MIT, enabled a computer to be shared among several different users. This led to the creation of "Project MAC". -
Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lboratory
McCarthy started an AI research project at Stanford Computer Science program which was known as SAIL. -
Turing Award
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Computer Pioneer Award
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IJCAI Award for Research Excellence
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Kyoto Prize
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National Medal of Science
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Benjmanin Franklin Medal
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John McCarthy dies