Pyyan / People / John McCarthy
Named the field at the 1956 Dartmouth workshop he organised, invented Lisp, and founded the Stanford AI Laboratory. Also originated time-sharing and garbage collection.
Known for
Coined 'artificial intelligence'LispDartmouth workshop 1956Turing Award 1971
3 CareerEvery role we can document, most recent first
- 1962–200038 yrsStanford UniversityProfessor; founded SAIL
- 1956–19626 yrsMITAssistant Professor; co-founded MIT AI Project
- 1955–19561 yrDartmouth CollegeAssistant Professor
0 Books & papersPublished work, oldest first
No books — their work lives in papers, code and talks. The accounts above are the place to follow it.
LineageWho taught whom. Most of this field descends from a handful of laboratories, and the shortest path between two researchers is usually an advisor.
Worked alongsideco-founders and close collaborators
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