John McCarthy By lrongey Sep 4, 1927 John McCarthy, Born in Boston, MA 1943 Education, High School Diploma, Belmont High School, Los Angeles 1948 College, B.S. (Math) California Institute of Technology (CalTech) 1951 College, PhD. (Math) Princeton University 1955 One of the founders of Artificial Intelligence (AI) idea 1958 John, invented the list processing language (LISP) Jan 1, 1959 John, proposed a way of distributing computer resources, known as timesharing 1962 John came to the Math department at Stanford 1965 Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, (SAIL) 1965 Transferred to Stanford's newly formed Department of Computer Science With the help of Lester Earnest, founded and led SAIL 1971 ACM Turing Award 1980 Kyoto Prize 1990 National Medal of Science 2003 Benjamin Franklin Medal Oct 24, 2011 John McCarthy dies at 84
