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.- Category ID : 55584
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.
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.