Republic of the Lost by John Jay McCarty

He then served in the US Army and was readmitted, receiving a BS in mathematics in 1948. McCarthy was suspended from Caltech for failure to attend physical education courses. As a result, he was able to skip the first two years of mathematics at Caltech. McCarthy showed an early aptitude for mathematics during his teens he taught himself college mathematics by studying the textbooks used at the nearby California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

McCarthy was accepted into Caltech in 1944. McCarthy graduated from Belmont High School two years early. John was fluent in the Russian language and made friends with Russian scientists during multiple trips to the Soviet Union but he became disillusioned after making visits to the Soviet Bloc which led to him becoming a conservative Republican. Before he attended high school, he got interested in science by reading a translation of a Russian popular science book for children, called 100,000 Whys. īoth parents were active members of the Communist Party during the 1930s, and they encouraged learning and critical thinking. His father came from Cromane, a small fishing village in County Kerry, Ireland.

The family was obliged to relocate frequently during the Great Depression, until McCarthy's father found work as an organizer for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers in Los Angeles, California. John McCarthy was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on September 4, 1927, to an Irish immigrant father and a Lithuanian Jewish immigrant mother, John Patrick and Ida (Glatt) McCarthy. He received many accolades and honors, such as the 1971 Turing Award for his contributions to the topic of AI, the United States National Medal of Science, and the Kyoto Prize. McCarthy spent most of his career at Stanford University. He co-authored the document that coined the term ' artificial intelligence' (AI), developed the programming language family Lisp, significantly influenced the design of the language ALGOL, popularized time-sharing, and invented garbage collection.

He was one of the founders of the discipline of artificial intelligence. John McCarthy (Septem– October 24, 2011) was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist. Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, IJCAI Award for Research Excellence (1985) Princeton University, California Institute of TechnologyĪrtificial intelligence, Lisp, circumscription, situation calculus

Republic of the Lost by John Jay McCarty