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John McCarthy was an American computer scientist who coined the term artificial intelligence and organized the 1956 Dartmouth workshop that gave the field its name, and who designed the Lisp programming language in 1958, one of the earliest languages built specifically for symbolic and list processing rather than numerical computation. He received the 1971 ACM Turing Award for his contributions to artificial intelligence.
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John McCarthy coined the term artificial intelligence for the 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, the workshop that founded the field as a distinct research area.
John McCarthy's Lisp (1958) was the first language to embody functional programming's core ideas, treating functions as first-class values and favoring recursion over iteration.
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1. The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Walter Isaacson, Simon and Schuster, 2014
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Dr. McCarthy's lecture "The Present State of Research on Artificial Intelligence" is a topic that covers the area in which he has achieved considerable recognition for his work.
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Association for Computing MachineryIn Field: Artificial IntelligenceView the Source Wikipedia: John McCarthy (computer scientist)
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McCarthy, Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester and Claude E. Shannon coined the term 'artificial intelligence' in a proposal for the famous Dartmouth conference in Summer 1956.
Wikipedia: Garbage collection (computer science)
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Garbage collection was invented by American computer scientist John McCarthy
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