John McCarthy
John McCarthy · Technology & Engineering
Coined 'artificial intelligence'; created LISP; Turing Award laureate.
1927, Boston, Massachusetts, United States — 2011, Stanford, California, United States
United States
John McCarthy is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Coined 'artificial intelligence'; created LISP; Turing Award laureate.
McCarthy studied mathematics at Caltech and Princeton, then organized the 1956 Dartmouth workshop where he coined the term 'artificial intelligence' and helped found the field. In 1958 he designed LISP, which became the dominant programming language of AI research, and he later pioneered time-sharing and received the 1971 Turing Award. He was the son of an Irish Catholic immigrant father and a Lithuanian Jewish immigrant mother, Ida Glatt, giving him Jewish ancestry on his mother's side.
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Coined 'artificial intelligence'; created LISP; Turing Award laureate.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science
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