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Professor John McCarthy is a mathematician, computer scientist, and cognitive scientist; a pioneer in mathematical theory of computation, artificial intelligence (he created the term Artificial Intelligence), and computer programming languages: he invented (some say discovered) Lisp in 1958, one of the oldest and highest level languages, arguably the oldest language in active use today, and maybe the oldest high-level language overall, along with Fortran. Languages of similar vintage are Fortran and Cobol. As of 2001 Jan 1, he is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Stanford University, USA.

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• ACM: A.M. Turing Award: John McCarthy

  http://awards.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=0239596&srt=all&aw=140&ao=AMTURING&yr=1971
  The Association for Computing Machinery gave McCarthy the prestigious Alan M. Turing Award in 1971: For research on artificial intelligence, an area in which he achieved considerable recognition for his work.

• Wall Street Journal: McCarthy, a Founder of Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 84

  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203911804576653530510986612.html
  Article by Stephen Miller on a founder of the study of artificial intelligence, who named the discipline and spent decades making computers understand things that for humans are common sense.

• Wikipedia: John McCarthy (Computer Scientist)

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_(computer_scientist)
  Short biography in the online encyclopedia with links to articles on related topics.

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