John W. C. McCarthy

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gptkbp:instanceOf computer scientist
gptkbp:affiliation gptkb:Stanford_University
gptkbp:awards Turing Award
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Boston,_Massachusetts
gptkbp:born September 4, 1927
gptkbp:children 3
gptkbp:contribution creating the concept of garbage collection
developing time-sharing systems
founding_the_field_of_AI
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:Palo_Alto,_California
gptkbp:died October 24, 2011
gptkbp:education gptkb:California_Institute_of_Technology
gptkbp:famousQuote "The most important thing is to be able to think for yourself."
"Artificial intelligence is the science and engineering of making intelligent machines."
"The future of AI is not about machines that think like humans, but about machines that think better than humans."
"I think that the most important thing is to be able to think for yourself."
"I believe that the best way to predict the future is to invent it."
gptkbp:field computer science
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label John W. C. McCarthy
gptkbp:influenced AI research
LISP community
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:John_von_Neumann
gptkb:Alan_Turing
gptkbp:knownFor Artificial Intelligence
LISP programming language
gptkbp:nationality American
gptkbp:notableFeature gptkb:Peter_Norvig
gptkb:Marvin_Minsky
gptkb:John_McCarthy_Jr.
gptkbp:researchAreas machine learning
knowledge representation
natural language processing
robotics
automated reasoning
gptkbp:spouse Ruth_McCarthy