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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

John McCarthy

Title:

Professor of Computer Science and Charles M. Pigott Professor, School of Engineering

Affiliation:

Stanford University

Stanford,California 94305 USA

Gender:

Male

Year Deceased:

2011

Award Discipline:

Mathematics and Computer Science

Award Year:

1990

Citation:

"For his fundamental contributions to computer science and artificial intelligence, including the development of the LISP programming language; the mathematical theory of computation; the concept and development of time-sharing; the application of mathematical logic to computer programs that use commonsense knowledge and reasoning; and the naming and thus the definition of the field of artificial intelligence itself."

Presented by President Bush at a White House East Room Ceremony on November 13, 1990.

 

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