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Born in Boston, Massachusetts
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Entered the California Institute of Technology for undergraduate studies
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Earns undergraduate degree from the California Institute of Technology
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Receives PhD in mathematics from Princeton
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Organizes the first Dartmouth Conference on Artificial Intelligence while teaching mathematics at Dartmouth
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founds the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory with Marvin Minsky
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LISP stands for List Processing. Revolutionary programming language that influenced most languages that followed it
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Invents Garbage Collection for computer programs and adds it to LISP
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Publishes "Programs with Common Sense" paper laying out his programming approach and suggesting a way to evolve human intelligence with the aid of machines / computers
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Becomes the founding director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, or SAIL
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Turing Award
Receives A. M. Turing Award from the Association for computing Machinery at the 26th annual ACM conference for his contributions in the field of Artificial Intelligence -
Received the National Medal of Science
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Retires officially
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Receives Benjamin Franklin Medal from the Franklin Institute
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Died in Stanford, California
