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John McCarthy

"I don't see that human intelligence is something that humans can never understand."


September 4, 1927- October 24, 2011

Education

He took mathematics at Caltech and Princeton. He recieved his bachelors for mathematics at Caltech in 1948, and he recieved his doctorate at Princeton in 1951.

Career

He made the term AI in 1955. From there, he taught computer science at Princeton for the rest of his career. He also created the computer program language(LISP) in 1958 along with elephant 2000.

Awards

He won the Benjamin Franklin medal Nation Medal of Science, the A.M Turning Award, and the Kyoto Prize.

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