Died 2011-10-24.
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John McCarthy
John McCarthy was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist. He was one of the founders of the discipline of artificial intelligence, and part of just a small group of artificial intelligence researchers in the 1950s and 1960s. He co-authored the proposal for the Dartmouth workshop which coined the term "artificial intelligence" (AI), led the development of the symbolic programming la…
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Born 4 September 1927 · Died 24 October 2011 · Q92739
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2011· 2 entries
“Ascribing Mental Qualities to Machines”
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2009· 1 entry
Published “<tt>edgeR</tt> : a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data” in Bioinformatics — cited 39,802 times.
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2003· 1 entry
Won Benjamin Franklin Medal (2003).
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded Programming Languages Achievement Award (2002).
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1999· 1 entry
“for his co-founding of the fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and timesharing systems, and for major contributions to mathematics and computer science”
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded ACM Fellow (1994).
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1990· 2 entries
Awarded AAAI Fellow (1990).
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Won National Medal of Science (1990).
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1988· 1 entry
Awarded Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology (1988).
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1985· 2 entries
Awarded IJCAI Award for Research Excellence (1985).
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Awarded Computer Pioneer Award (1985).
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1982· 1 entry
Seems to have originated the idea of the space fountain, a type of tower extending into space and kept vertical by the outward force of a stream of pellets propelled from Earth along a sort of conveyor belt which retu
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1980· 1 entry
The philosopher John Searle responded with his famous Chinese Room Argument, disagreeing with McCarthy and taking the stance that machines cannot have beliefs simply because they are not conscious
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1979· 1 entry
McCarthy wrote an article entitled "Ascribing Mental Qualities to Machines"
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1978· 1 entry
Attempting to scale Annapurna I Central as part of an all-women expedition
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1971· 2 entries
Awarded Turing Award (1971).
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“Generality in Artificial Intelligence”
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1966· 1 entry
McCarthy and his team at Stanford wrote a computer program used to play a series of chess games with counterparts in the Soviet Union; McCarthy's team lost two games and drew two games (see Kotok-McCarthy)
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1962· 1 entry
Became a full professor at Stanford, where he remained until his retirement in 2000
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1961· 1 entry
Was perhaps the first to suggest publicly the idea of utility computing, in a speech given to celebrate MIT's centennial: that computer time-sharing technology might result in a future in which computing power and eve
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1958· 2 entries
Proposed the advice taker, which inspired later work on question-answering and logic programming
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McCarthy served on an Association for Computing Machinery ad hoc committee on Languages that became part of the committee that designed ALGOL 60
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1951· 2 entries
Studied at Princeton University, Doctor of Philosophy (1951).
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With his dissertation "Projection operators and partial differential equations", under the supervision of Donald C
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1948· 1 entry
Studied at California Institute of Technology, Bachelor of Science (1948).
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1927· 2 entries
To an Irish immigrant father and a Lithuanian Jewish immigrant mother, John Patrick and Ida (Glatt) McCarthy
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Born 1927-09-04.
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