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John McCarthy

1927 - 2011

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John McCarthy (September 4, 1927 – October 24, 2011) was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist. He was one of the founders of the discipline of artificial intelligence. He co-authored the document that coined the term "artificial intelligence" (AI), developed the programming language family Lisp, significantly influenced the design of the language ALGOL, popularized time-sharing, and invented garbage collection. McCarthy spent most of his career at Stanford University. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John McCarthy is the 6th most popular computer scientist (up from 9th in 2019), the 680th most popular biography from United States (up from 707th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular American Computer Scientist.

John McCarthy is most famous for his work in Artificial Intelligence, including his development of LISP and the design of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, John McCarthy ranks 6 out of 245. Before him are Alan Turing, Richard Stallman, Grace Hopper, Satoshi Nakamoto, and Tim Berners-Lee. After him are Barbara Liskov, Dennis Ritchie, Frances E. Allen, Donald Knuth, Edsger W. Dijkstra, and Geoffrey Hinton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, John McCarthy ranks 29. Before him are Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium, Maurice Béjart, Manfred Eigen, Martin Lewis Perl, Albert Uderzo, and George Andrew Olah. After him are Rosalynn Carter, Janet Leigh, Robert Hossein, Marshall Warren Nirenberg, Simone Veil, and Gilbert Bécaud. Among people deceased in 2011, John McCarthy ranks 26. Before him are Joe Frazier, Herbert A. Hauptman, Jack LaLanne, William Lipscomb, Annie Girardot, and Flórián Albert. After him are Ramiz Alia, Ralph M. Steinman, Dennis Ritchie, Gary Moore, Sidney Lumet, and Maria Schneider.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John McCarthy ranks 680 out of 20,380. Before him are Albert Fish (1870), James Avery (1945), Ralph Lauren (1939), Dennis Hopper (1936), Kevin Spacey (1959), and Sydney Chaplin (1926). After him are Rosalynn Carter (1927), Paul Ekman (1934), Whoopi Goldberg (1955), Chris Pratt (1979), John Waters (1946), and Jerome Isaac Friedman (1930).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, John McCarthy ranks 3. Before him are Richard Stallman (1953), and Grace Hopper (1906). After him are Barbara Liskov (1939), Dennis Ritchie (1941), Frances E. Allen (1932), Donald Knuth (1938), Ray Kurzweil (1948), Marvin Minsky (1927), John Cocke (1925), Don Norman (1935), and Andrew S. Tanenbaum (1944).

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