John McCarthy

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  • Born

  • Received B.S. in Mathematics from CalTech

  • Received PhD in Mathematics from Princeton

  • Employment at Bell Labs

    This is where McCarthy continued to further expand his knowledge on machine intelligence

  • Coined term "Artificial Intelligence" at a Dartmouth conference

  • Created "LISP"

    LISP became the computer programming language for Artificial Intelligence

  • Became full-time professor at Stanford

  • SAIL

    Helped establish the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory which was a friendly rival to Project MAC for several years.

  • Turing Award

  • Computer Pioneer Award

  • IJCAI Award for research excellence

    International Joint Conference of Artificial Intelligence

  • Kyoto Prize

  • National Medal of Science

  • Benjamin Franklin Medal

  • Death