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McCarthy coined the term artificial intelligence "In contrast [to others in the field of AI], McCarthy was concerned with mundane and seemingly trivial tasks, such as constructing a plan to get to the airport" Dalakov, Georgi. “John McCarthy.” Computer Timeline, www.computer-timeline.com/timeline/john-mccarthy/#:~:text=McCarthy%20remained%20as%20an%20instructor,retirement%20almost%2040%20years%20later. Accessed 12 Nov. 2023. -
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McCarthy created the computer programming language LISP in 1958. "LISP was initially used primarily by the AI community, owing to its great flexibility due to its expressive power. Though its use declined in the 1990s, in the 21st century there was renewed interest in LISP, especially in the open-source community." Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "John McCarthy". Encyclopedia Britannica, 20 Oct. 2023, https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-McCarthy. Accessed 12 November 2023. -
"While at MIT, McCarthy proposed a method of distributing computer resources known as timesharing, in which many individual users could appear to have sole access to an expensive mainframe computer system. Timesharing became a dominant computing paradigm in the 1960s and 1970s, and MIT led much of the early work, influenced by McCarthy's ideas." “John McCarthy.” CHM, computerhistory.org/profile/john-mccarthy/. Accessed 12 Nov. 2023.
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'the principles of his programming philosophy and describing “a system which is to evolve intelligence of human order.”' MYERS, ANDREW. “Stanford’s John McCarthy, Seminal Figure of Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 84.” Stanford News, Standford University, 11 Oct. 2011, news.stanford.edu/2011/10/25/stanfords-john-mccarthy-seminal-figure-artificial-intelligence-dies-84/. http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/mcc59/mcc59.pdf -
This was the original paper on LISP. http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/recursive/recursive.pdf -
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McCarthy founded the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab (SAIL), one of the leading centres for research in the field. Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "John McCarthy". Encyclopedia Britannica, 20 Oct. 2023, https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-McCarthy. Accessed 12 November 2023.
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"In 1965, McCarthy became the founding director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL), where research was conducted into machine intelligence, graphical interactive computing, and autonomous vehicles." “John McCarthy.” CHM, computerhistory.org/profile/john-mccarthy/. Accessed 12 Nov. 2023. -
Hosted "a series of four simultaneous computer chess matches carried out via telegraph against rivals in Russia. The matches, played with two pieces per side, lasted several months. McCarthy lost two of the matches and drew two."
MYERS, ANDREW. “Stanford’s John McCarthy, Seminal Figure of Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 84.” Stanford News, Standford University, 11 Oct. 2011, news.stanford.edu/2011/10/25/stanfords-john-mccarthy-seminal-figure-artificial-intelligence-dies-84/. -
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"I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful, one hundred percent!
moreover,
An elephant never forgets!" "good for writing and verifying programs that interact with people ...or interact with programs belonging to other organizations" McCarthy, John. “Elephant 2000: A Programming Language Based on Speech Acts.” Elephant 2000: A Programming Language Based on Speech Acts, Stanford University, 6 Nov. 1998, www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/elephant/elephant.html. -
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