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John is born in Boston, Massachusetts
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Graduates from Cal-Tech with B.S. in Mathematics
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Ph.D in Mathematics from Princeton
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John began working at Bell Labs
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First thoughts of Artificial intelligence during a research project.
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Wrote 'Program With Common Sense' that led to the invention of Lisp. Its popularity went down in the 1990's. Since then, in the 21st century, it has made a comeback especially in the open source community.
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Began teaching at MIT
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McCarthy began a timesharing system through his consultancy at BBN (Bolt Beranek and Newman) with J.C.R. Licklider and Edward Fredkin. It began working months after.
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McCarthy challenged a group at Moscow ITEP (Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics) to a chess match. The moves were exchanged by a telegram. This received lots of media attention.
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Starts a research project in Stanford. They finally had the equipment and funding for this project.
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Received the A.M. Turing Award of the Association for Computing Machinery
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For his research on AI
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For his research on AI
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Wins Kyoto Prize for his study on AI
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For his research on Artificial Intelligence
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received for "multiple contributions to the foundations of artificial intelligence and computer science including the development of the LISP language, the invention of time-sharing interactive programming, and key developments in the application of formal logic to commonsense reasoning."
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Dies in his home in Sanford