The 1988 Laureates / Advanced Technology Category / Computer Science and Engineering, Artificial intelligence
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John McCarthy

U.S.A. / September 4, 1927
Computer Scientist; Professor, Stanford University

Since the genesis of Artificial Intelligence (AI), he has challenged the basic problems of this field as a leader and is called "the Father of Artificial Intelligence." He has created LISP, a programming language for symbolic processing, considered to be the greatest invention this century in the field of computer science.

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
1927
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
1948
Graduated from California Institute of Technology
1950-1951
Proctor Fellow, Princeton University
1951
Doctor in Mathematics, Princeton University
1951-1953
Higgins Research Instructor, Princeton University
1953-1955
Acting Assistant Professor, Stanford University
1955-1958
Assistant Professor, Dartmouth college
1958-1961
Assistant Professor, MIT
1961-1962
Associate Professor, MIT
1962-present
Professor, Stanford University

AWARDS AND HONORS
1961
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) National Lecturer
1971
A. M. Turing Award from ACM
1977
Sigma Xi National Lecturer
1985
Research Excellence Award, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)

MAJOR WORKS
1956
Automata Studies (Co-editor with Dr. C.E.Shannon)
1958
Programs with Common Sense
1962
Time-Sharing Computing Systems
1974
Artificial Intelligence
1977
History of LISP
1980
Circumscription - A Form of Non-Monotonic Reasoning