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John McCarthy, Born in Boston, MA
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Education, High School Diploma, Belmont High School, Los Angeles
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College, B.S. (Math) California Institute of Technology (CalTech)
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College, PhD. (Math) Princeton University
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One of the founders of Artificial Intelligence (AI) idea
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John, invented the list processing language (LISP)
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John, proposed a way of distributing computer resources, known as timesharing
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John came to the Math department at Stanford
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Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, (SAIL)
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Transferred to Stanford's newly formed Department of Computer Science
With the help of Lester Earnest, founded and led SAIL -
ACM Turing Award
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Kyoto Prize
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National Medal of Science
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Benjamin Franklin Medal
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John McCarthy dies at 84