John McCarthy
American computer scientist
Born on: September 4, 1927Died on: October 24, 2011
Aged: 84 years 50 days (1009 months)
Birth Sign: Virgo
John McCarthy was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist. He was one of the founders of the discipline of artificial intelligence, and part of just a small group of artificial intelligence researchers in the 1950s and 1960s.
He co-authored the proposal for the Dartmouth workshop which coined the term "artificial intelligence" (AI), led the development of the symbolic programming language family Lisp and had a large influence in the language ALGOL, popularized time-sharing, and created garbage collection.
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