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John McCarthy
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John McCarthy was an American computer scientist who coined the term artificial intelligence for the 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project he organized, a gathering historians treat alongside that year's MIT symposium as marking the start of both artificial intelligence and cognitive science. McCarthy went on to invent the Lisp programming language in 1958, a language built around symbolic list processing that became the standard tool for early artificial intelligence research, and to develop early concepts of time-sharing computing at Stanford University's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, which he founded.
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Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account Birth DateSourced to the subject's own account Death DateSourced to the subject's own account Death YearSourced to the subject's own account FieldComputer Science / Cognitive Science 2 Death PlaceSourced to the subject's own accountStanford, California, U.S. 1 NationalitySourced to the subject's own account Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own accountCoining the term artificial intelligence and inventing the Lisp programming language 1 BirthplaceSourced to the subject's own accountBoston, Massachusetts, U.S. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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1. John McCarthy (Wikipedia)
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was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist.
1. John McCarthy (Wikipedia)
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Known for Artificial intelligence, Lisp, circumscription, situation calculus
2. Cognitive Science (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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At this time, primitive computers had been around for only a few years, but pioneers such as John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Allen Newell, and Herbert Simon were founding the field of artificial intelligence.
2. Cognitive Science (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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