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John McCarthy
American computer scientist and cognitive scientist (1927-2011)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 4 September 1927
- Died
- 24 October 2011
- Place of birth
- Boston
- Place of death
- Stanford
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- John
- Family name
- McCarthy
- Mother
- Ida Glatt McCarthy
- Field of work
- artificial intelligence
- Occupation
- mathematician, computer scientist, engineer, university teacher, artificial intelligence researcher
- Citizenship
- United States
- Religion
- Judaism
- Awards
- Turing Award, Benjamin Franklin Medal, National Medal of Science, Computer History Museum Fellow, IJCAI Award for Research Excellence, Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology, Computer Pioneer Award, Programming Languages Achievement Award, AAAI Fellow, Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society, ACM Fellow
- archives at
- Computer History Museum
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978)
- doctoral advisor
- Donald C. Spencer
- doctoral student
- Raj Reddy, Ramanathan V. Guha, Barbara Liskov, Ruzena Bajcsy, Erik Sandewall, Randall Davis, Cordell Green, James Allan Painter, Monti Don Callero, Donald Maurice Kaplan, Donald Arthur Waterman, Pierre Jules Louis Edmond Vicens
- Erdős number
- 4
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Association for Computing Machinery, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- military branch
- United States Army
- notable work
- artificial intelligence
- participant in
- Dartmouth workshop
- place of burial
- Alta Mesa Memorial Park
- student of
- Solomon Lefschetz
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