john mccarthy

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

John McCarthy

   <person, artificial intelligence> A pioneer of {artificial
   intelligence} (he coined ther term).  He invented {Lisp} at
   {MIT} in the late 1950s and later worked at {SAIL}.

   (ftp://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc).

   E-mail: <[email protected]>.

   (2003-08-06)