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.