John McCarthy


 * John McCarthy wiki "s Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University.

"A pioneer in artificial intelligence, McCarthy invented LISP, the preeminent AI programming language, and first proposed general-purpose time sharing of computers. He identifies common-sense rules that determine the consequences of events and codifies these rules, along with other information, as sentences in the symbolic languages of AI databases."


 * Winner of the 1998 Kyoto Prize

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