john mccarthy

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john mccarthy - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  John McCarthy
  
     <person, artificial intelligence> A pioneer of artificial intelligence
      (he coined ther term).  He invented Lisp at
     MIT in the late 1950s and later worked at SAIL.
  
     (ftp://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc).
  
     E-mail: <jmc@cs.stanford.edu>.
  
     (2003-08-06)