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Birth of John McCarthy
On Spetember 24, 1927 John McCarthy was born in Boston, Massachusetts -
John McCarthy graduates from CALTECH
John McCarthy graduated from the California Institure of Technology obtaining a B.S. in Mathematics -
Graduates from Princeton
McCarthy Graduates with a Ph.D. in Mathematics at Princeton University -
Artifical Intelligence Workshop
In the summer of 1956 at the Dartmouth Summer Research Project, the very first work in the field of artificial intelligence began. -
First Artificial Intelligence conference
In 1956 McCarthy organized the first international conference to emphasize arttificial intelligence -
Invention of LISP
John McCarthy invented LISP, a programming language, while at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. LISP could support recursion and dynamic storage. -
Programs With Common Sense
In 1959 John McCarthy Worte his paper titled "Programs With Common Sense". He presented it at a conference in Teddington, England and it is one of the first published papers written on the topic of artifical intelligence. In this paper a hypothetical computer program called the "advice taker" was introduced. -
"Garbage Collection"
McCarthy invented a technigue in order to help solve problems in LISP. "Garbage collection" is a form of automatic memory management. It seeks to reclaim memory occupied by objects that are no longer needed or in use in the program. -
SAIL
SAIL is the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab. McCarthy helped establish this lab in 1965 when he left MIT for Stanford. The first display-based time sharing system "Thor" was also created at this time. -
"Kotok-McCarthy"
"Kotok-McCarthy" is a Chess playing program for the IBM 7090 Computer. It was the first computer program to play chess competitively. McCarthy's team at standford wrote a computer program to play chess with counter-parts of the Soviet Union. -
Turing Award
In 1971 McCarthy was awarded the Turing award for his lecture titled "The Present Sate of Research on Artificial Intelligence". -
Circumscription
Creat by John McCarthy, circumscription is a non-monotonic logic created to formalize the common sense assumption that things are expected unless otherwise specified. -
LOTS
"Low Overhead Time-Sharing System". In the mid 1980's John McCarthy and Ralph Gorin designed the first time-shared computer system for all Stanford students. -
Kyoto Prize
John McCarthy was awarded the Kyoto Prize in 1988 -
Death of John McCarthy
John McCarthy passed away on October 24th, 2011 at age 84 in Stanford, California.
