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Straight out of the womb
John is born in Boston, Massachusetts -
Cal-Tech Math
Graduates from Cal-Tech with B.S. in Mathematics -
Princeton Math
Ph.D in Mathematics from Princeton -
Bell Labs
John began working at Bell Labs -
Artificial what?
First thoughts of Artificial intelligence during a research project. -
Writing
Wrote 'Program With Common Sense' that led to the invention of Lisp. Its popularity went down in the 1990's. Since then, in the 21st century, it has made a comeback especially in the open source community. -
Teaching
Began teaching at MIT -
Timesharing System
McCarthy began a timesharing system through his consultancy at BBN (Bolt Beranek and Newman) with J.C.R. Licklider and Edward Fredkin. It began working months after. -
Chess On!
McCarthy challenged a group at Moscow ITEP (Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics) to a chess match. The moves were exchanged by a telegram. This received lots of media attention. -
AI project
Starts a research project in Stanford. They finally had the equipment and funding for this project. -
A.M. Turing
Received the A.M. Turing Award of the Association for Computing Machinery -
Research Excellence Award
For his research on AI -
IJCAI Award
For his research on AI -
Kyoto
Wins Kyoto Prize for his study on AI -
Medal Of Science
For his research on Artificial Intelligence -
Ben Franklin Medal
received for "multiple contributions to the foundations of artificial intelligence and computer science including the development of the LISP language, the invention of time-sharing interactive programming, and key developments in the application of formal logic to commonsense reasoning." -
RIP
Dies in his home in Sanford