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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
John McCarthy
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Professor of Computer Science and Charles M. Pigott Professor, School of Engineering |
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Stanford University |
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Stanford, California 94305 USA |
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Male |
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2011 |
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Mathematics and Computer Science |
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1990 |
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"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." |
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Presented by President Bush at a White House East Room Ceremony on November 13, 1990. |
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