John McCarthy Quotes


The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world's most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement.


Citations

McCarthy, John. "Aphorisms." Stanford University, http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/aphorisms.html.

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John McCarthy
John McCarthy
  • Born: September 4, 1927
  • Died: October 24, 2011
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Politician

John McCarthy was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist. McCarthy 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 Lisp programming language family, significantly influenced the design of the ALGOL programming language, popularized time-sharing, invented garbage collection, and was very influential in the early development of AI.