What is John McCarthy?
[[File:John McCarthy Stanford.jpg|thumb]] '''John McCarthy''' (September 4, 1927 – October 24, 2011) was an [[US|American]] [[scientist]]. He is mostly known for the work he did in the field of [[logic]]. McCarthy was the first to use the term [[artificial intelligence]], in an article he wrote in 1955. He invented [[LISP]] to be able to do logic programming, in 1958. This makes LISP the second-oldest high-level [[programming language]] that is still in use; [[FORTRAN]] is older. McCarthy studied [[mathematics]]. He invented [[Garbage collection (computer science)|Garbage collection]] to solve some of the problems LISP had. McCarthy's work received many awards, the [[Turing Award]] for his work on Artificial Intelligence, in 1971, or the [[National Medal of Science]] in 2003 are among them. {{US-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:McCarthy, John}} [[Category:1927 births]] [[Category:2011 deaths]] [[Category:American computer scientists]] [[Category:Scientists from Boston]]