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Birth Date
John McCarthy was born on September 4th, 1927 in Boston Massachusetts. -
California Institute of Technology
At just 17 years old, John McCarthy entered the California Institute of Technology. -
BS in Mathematics
John received a BS in Mathematics from Caltech. -
PhD in Mathematics
John received his PhD in mathematics from Princeton University. -
Coined the term "AI"
At a summer workshop hosted by Dartmouth College, John McCarthy coined the term "AI" in front of the worlds leading technological minds. -
Invented Language Lisp
John invented the programming, Language Lisp. -
Timesharing
In the 1960s, McCarthy introduced and perfected the idea of "Timesharing" which is equivalent to tadays version of the cloud. He was finding a way for different computer terminals to access the same information at once.... in its simplest form. -
Chess Program
In 1962, with the help of his students, McCarthy assisted in creating the first computer program to play chess. -
SAIL
In 1965, John became the founding director of SAIL. The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. -
Kotok-McCarthy chess match vs. Soviets
In 1966, John McCarthy took the program to compete against another machine, in a game of chess. The time period of this was pivotal, as the match was between us and the Soviets. The U.S program lost to the soviets program,
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A.M Turing Award
In 1971, McCarthy was given the A.M Turing award by the Association of Computing Machinery. -
Honored Professor
In 1987, John was named the Charles M. Piggot professor at the Stanford school of engineering. -
Kyoto Prize
In 1988, John received the Kyoto prize. -
National Medal of Science
In 1990, John received the National medal of science, the nations highest technical award. -
Benjamin Franklin Medal
In 2003, he was awarded the Benjamin Franklin medal. -
The death of John McCarthy
John McCarthy passed away in 2011 at his home in Stanford, California.