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name: McCarthy, John

sex: male
lived: (1927– )

biography: Mathematician and computer specialist, born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was affiliated with Dartmouth (1955–8), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1958–62), and Stanford (1962). He is considered one of the fathers of artificial intelligence, having developed the programming language LISP (1958–62), and he helped develop ALGOL. He also did early work in robotics (1969).