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Born
John McCarthy was born September 4th, 1927 in Boston Massachusetts. His father John Patrick McCarthy a carpenter and fisherman with Irish Catholic decent. His mother Ida Glatt McCarthy a journalist and a social worker. -
Mathematician at California Institute of Technology
At the age of 17 years old McCarthy was accepted into the California Institute of Technology, and as a freshman began in graduate level classes. -
Received B.S. in Mathematics
McCarthy was an incredible Mathematician before acceptance into CAL Tech he had taught himself Calculus. -
Moved and received Ph.D
McCarthy moved to Princeton where he received his Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1951. -
Met John von Neumann and Marvin Lee
Founded AI-LAB at MIT with their collaboration -
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Assistant Professor at Princeton
Collaborated with John Von Neumann in his thinking of crating a computer in a way similar to our own human brain evolution, in a process of feedback/interaction. Soon to be "Programs with Common Sense". -
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Assistant Professor at Stanford
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A Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence
Collaborated with Marvin Minsky along with Claude Shannon from Bell Labs and Nathaniel Rochester. Here he could bring the term “Artificial intelligence” into the public eye and established a handful of researches in the new field including himself and Minsky. -
Assistant Professorship at Dartmouth College
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Programs with Common Sense Published
McCarthy suggested that for a computer to have human level intelligence, it needed a formal representation of human logic systems. An idea that would have far reaching implications. -
Unveiled LISP
Programming language based of FORTRAN essential to AI programming. -
CTSS (Compatible Time-Sharing System)
Met Lester Donald Earnest who was at the time designing the governments air defense system SAGE. In it, users could get simultaneous access to the system through remote consoles. This lead to his thinking on the “time-sharing” of a computers power, eventually giving rise to CTSS -
Back to California
In 1962 McCarthy moved back to California accepting a full professorship at the Department of Mathematics at Stanford quickly changing to a professor in the Department of Computer Science. -
Helped create SAIL
(Stanford Institute of Artificial Intelligences or Stanford AI Lab) While at SAIL he began to dabble in the world of robotics to test his theories regarding AI. He supervised research regarding computer vision, speech recognition, and manipulation. -
Turing Award
Received Turing Award of the Association for Computing Machinery -
Left role in SAIL
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Kyoto Prize
Received the Kyoto Prize 1988 -
US National Medal of Science
He was a laureate of the US National Medal of Science in 1991 -
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Received Benjamin Franklin Medal 2003 -
IEEE Induction
Became inducted into IEEE Intelligent Systems’ AI's Hall of Fame. -
Died
