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John McCarthy was born in Boston Massachusetts (Earnest).
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Enrolled at California Institute of Technology for Undergraduate Studies and given advanced standing (Earnest).
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McCarthy was suspended from Caltech for not attending his physical education classes and joined the U.S. Army (Earnest)
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Returned from his military service and resumed his undergraduate studies at Caltech (Earnest).
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John McCarthy attended the Hixon Symposium on Cerebral Mechanisms and Behavior which he credited with sparking his interest in artificial intelligence. (Sabanovic et al.)
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Received B.S in Mathematics at Caltech (Earnest)
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Received Ph.D. in Mathematics from Princeton University (Sabanovic et al.).
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John McCarthy participated in the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence which is where the term "artificial intelligence" was coined and allowed researchers to work on their plans for the new field. (Sabanovic et al.)
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Went to work at MIT on a Sloan Fellowship (Sabanovic et al.)
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Developed LISP, a programing language used in artificial intelligence (Earnest).
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Formed the MIT AI Project with Marvin Minnksy (Earnest)
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He went back to work at Stanford University as a professor and started a new AI project that would be the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory: SAIL. (Earnest)
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The first robotic arm controlled by a computer that was built at SAIL from an old prosthetic arm. (Sabanovic et al.)
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Received the A.M. Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (Earnest).
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Received the Research Excellence Award of The International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Earnest)
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Received the Kyoto Prize (Earnest).
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He retired from Stanford University (Sabanovic et al.).
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John McCarthy died at home at the age of 84 (Earnest).