John McCarthy (computer scientist) (English Wikipedia)

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Hayes, Patrick J.; Morgenstern, Leora (2007). "On John McCarthy's 80th Birthday, in Honor of his Contributions". AI Magazine. 28 (4). Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence: 93–102. Archived from the original on September 23, 2011. Retrieved November 24, 2010.

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McCarthy, John; Minsky, Marvin L.; Rochester, Nathaniel; Shannon, Claude E. (December 15, 2006). "A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, August 31, 1955". AI Magazine. 27 (4): 12–12. doi:10.1609/aimag.v27i4.1904. ISSN 2371-9621.

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"John McCarthy – A.M. Turing Award Laureate". amturing.acm.org.
Lester Earnest. "A. M. Turing award: John McCarthy, United States – 1971". ACM. Retrieved September 5, 2012.

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Williams, Sam (March 5, 2002). Arguing A.I.: The Battle for Twenty-first-Century Science. AtRandom. ISBN 978-0812991802.
The lecture, entitled "Time Sharing Computer Systems," is pp. 220-248 in Management and the Computer of the Future (ed Martin Greenberger), published 1962, later reprinted as Computers and the world of the future (1965).

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Anwar, Yasmin (April 25, 2017). "Hubert Dreyfus, preeminent philosopher and AI critic, dies at 87". Berkeley News. Retrieved December 2, 2025.

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Shasha, Dennis; Lazere, Cathy (1998). Out of Their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists. Springer. p. 23. ISBN 9780387982694. Retrieved February 27, 2016.
Garfinkel, Simson (1999). Abelson, Hal (ed.). Architects of the Information Society, Thirty-Five Years of the Laboratory for Computer Science at MIT. Cambridge: MIT Press. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-262-07196-3.

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Searle, John R (1980). "Minds, brains, and programs" (PDF). Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 3 (3): 417–457. doi:10.1017/s0140525x00005756. S2CID 55303721.

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Zeng, Daniel (2011). "AI's Hall of Fame" (PDF). IEEE Intelligent Systems. 26 (4): 5–15. Bibcode:2011IISys..26d...5Z. doi:10.1109/MIS.2011.64. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 16, 2011. Retrieved September 4, 2015.

computerhistory.org (Global: 2,213^th place; English: 1,495^th place)

"The 1956 Dartmouth Workshop and its Immediate Consequences: The Origins of Artificial Intelligence". CHM. Retrieved December 2, 2025.
CHM. "John McCarthy – CHM Fellow Award Winner". Archived from the original on April 3, 2015. Retrieved March 30, 2015.[1] Archived April 3, 2015, at the Wayback Machine

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Feigenbaum, Edward (December 2012). "McCarthy as Scientist and Engineer, with Personal Recollections". AI Magazine. 33 (4): 17–18. doi:10.1609/aimag.v33i4.2442. ISSN 0738-4602.
McCarthy, John (April 1960). "Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine, Pt I". Communications of the ACM. 3 (4): 184–195. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.422.5235. doi:10.1145/367177.367199. S2CID 1489409.
McCarthy, John (August 1959). "Letter to the editor". Communications of the ACM. 2 (8): 2–3. doi:10.1145/368405.1773349. S2CID 7196706.
Searle, John R (1980). "Minds, brains, and programs" (PDF). Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 3 (3): 417–457. doi:10.1017/s0140525x00005756. S2CID 55303721.
McCarthy, John; Minsky, Marvin L.; Rochester, Nathaniel; Shannon, Claude E. (December 15, 2006). "A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, August 31, 1955". AI Magazine. 27 (4): 12–12. doi:10.1609/aimag.v27i4.1904. ISSN 2371-9621.
Dreyfus, Hubert L. (August 7, 2014). Wrathall, Mark A. (ed.). Skillful Coping: Essays on the phenomenology of everyday perception and action. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199654703.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-965470-3.
Zeng, Daniel (2011). "AI's Hall of Fame" (PDF). IEEE Intelligent Systems. 26 (4): 5–15. Bibcode:2011IISys..26d...5Z. doi:10.1109/MIS.2011.64. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 16, 2011. Retrieved September 4, 2015.

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McCarthy, John (July 31, 1994). "Space Bridge Short". sci.space.tech Usenet newsgroup posts. Google Groups.
"He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense" (Usenet newsgroup sci.environment search).

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Steven Levy, Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution, Gutenberg.org, p. 34

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Zeng, Daniel (2011). "AI's Hall of Fame" (PDF). IEEE Intelligent Systems. 26 (4): 5–15. Bibcode:2011IISys..26d...5Z. doi:10.1109/MIS.2011.64. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 16, 2011. Retrieved September 4, 2015.

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"History of Computers and Computing, Birth of the modern computer, Software history, LISP of John McCarthy". history-computer.com. Archived from the original on January 3, 2020. Retrieved January 28, 2016.

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"Leading academic who coined the term 'artificial intelligence'". The Irish Times. Retrieved January 28, 2016.

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Jeuring, Johan; Meertens, Lambert; Guttmann, Walter (August 17, 2016). "Profile of IFIP Working Group 2.1". Foswiki. Retrieved October 4, 2020.
Swierstra, Doaitse; Gibbons, Jeremy; Meertens, Lambert (March 2, 2011). "ScopeEtc: IFIP21: Foswiki". Foswiki. Retrieved October 4, 2020.

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Woo, Elaine (October 28, 2011). "John McCarthy dies at 84; the father of artificial intelligence". Los Angeles Times.

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Nilsson, Nils J. "A Biographical Memoir" (PDF). National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved February 20, 2022.

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"President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details 1990". National Science Foundation. February 14, 2006. Retrieved September 27, 2012.

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"John McCarthy, 84, Dies; Computer Design Pioneer". The New York Times. October 26, 2011.
Markoff, John (October 25, 2011). "John McCarthy, 84, Dies; Computer Design Pioneer". The New York Times.

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Dreyfus, Hubert L. (August 7, 2014). Wrathall, Mark A. (ed.). Skillful Coping: Essays on the phenomenology of everyday perception and action. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199654703.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-965470-3.

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McCarthy, John (1951). Projection operators and partial differential equations.

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McCarthy, John (April 1960). "Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine, Pt I". Communications of the ACM. 3 (4): 184–195. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.422.5235. doi:10.1145/367177.367199. S2CID 1489409.

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Roberts, Jacob (2016). "Thinking Machines: The Search for Artificial Intelligence". Distillations. 2 (2): 14–23. Archived from the original on August 19, 2018. Retrieved March 20, 2018.

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"Foreword by Jeff Sutherland on the origin of Scrum and AI". Foreword by Jeff Sutherland on the origin of Scrum and AI. Retrieved November 6, 2025.

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McCarthy, John (April 1960). "Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine, Pt I". Communications of the ACM. 3 (4): 184–195. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.422.5235. doi:10.1145/367177.367199. S2CID 1489409.
McCarthy, John (August 1959). "Letter to the editor". Communications of the ACM. 2 (8): 2–3. doi:10.1145/368405.1773349. S2CID 7196706.
Searle, John R (1980). "Minds, brains, and programs" (PDF). Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 3 (3): 417–457. doi:10.1017/s0140525x00005756. S2CID 55303721.

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"Recursive functions of symbolic expressions and their computation by machine, Part I". Archived from the original on October 4, 2013. Retrieved November 24, 2013.
McCarthy, John (February 4, 1995). "Progress and its sustainability". formal.stanford.edu. Archived from the original on October 4, 2013. Retrieved November 24, 2013.
McCarthy, John (May 12, 1997). "Attempt at Censorship of Electronic Libraries at Stanford University in 1989". formal.stanford.edu. Retrieved December 5, 2023.
McCarthy, John (June 28, 2001). "The Robot and the Baby". formal.stanford.edu. Archived from the original on October 4, 2013. Retrieved November 24, 2013.
"About John McCarthy". Stanford University. Archived from the original on October 4, 2013. Retrieved February 1, 2013.
McCarthy, John (March 7, 2003). "Commentary on World, US, and scientific affairs". Stanford University. Archived from the original on October 4, 2013. Retrieved February 1, 2013. By the way I'm an atheist.

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"Computer pioneer discusses atheism, artificial intelligence". January 23, 2023.
Myers, Andrew (October 25, 2011). "Stanford's John McCarthy, seminal figure of artificial intelligence, dies at 84". Stanford University News. Retrieved October 26, 2011.
Beckett, Jamie (December 2, 2012). "Stanford School of Engineering names new engineering heroes". Stanford News. Retrieved December 2, 2012.

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Earnest, Les. "Soviet takeover of Czechoslovakia in 1968 witnessed by John McCarthy; Letter to Les Earnest dated Nov. 1, 1968" (PDF). Brags and Blunders of Lester Donald Earnest. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 7, 2023. Retrieved February 20, 2022.
Earnest, Les. "Biographies of John McCarthy". Stanford University. Archived from the original on June 11, 2016. Retrieved February 14, 2016.

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McCarthy, John. "Professor John McCarthy". jmc.stanford.edu.

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"Tree of John McCarthy students for the Computer History Exhibits". infolab.Stanford.edu. April 21, 2012. Archived from the original on December 2, 2013. Retrieved November 24, 2013.

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"Biography of Carolyn Talcott". Stanford University. Archived from the original on December 2, 2013.

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Mishlove, Jeffrey (November 3, 2011). John McCarthy (1927-2011): Artificial Intelligence (complete) – Thinking Allowed. YouTube (video). Archived from the original on March 24, 2013. Retrieved August 8, 2022. Also, with the same title. Ghost Archive. Archived from the original on July 31, 2021. Retrieved August 8, 2022.{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
"History of Computers and Computing, Birth of the modern computer, Software history, LISP of John McCarthy". history-computer.com. Archived from the original on January 3, 2020. Retrieved January 28, 2016.
Earnest, Les. "Soviet takeover of Czechoslovakia in 1968 witnessed by John McCarthy; Letter to Les Earnest dated Nov. 1, 1968" (PDF). Brags and Blunders of Lester Donald Earnest. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 7, 2023. Retrieved February 20, 2022.
Hayes, Patrick J.; Morgenstern, Leora (2007). "On John McCarthy's 80th Birthday, in Honor of his Contributions". AI Magazine. 28 (4). Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence: 93–102. Archived from the original on September 23, 2011. Retrieved November 24, 2010.
Roberts, Jacob (2016). "Thinking Machines: The Search for Artificial Intelligence". Distillations. 2 (2): 14–23. Archived from the original on August 19, 2018. Retrieved March 20, 2018.
"Recursive functions of symbolic expressions and their computation by machine, Part I". Archived from the original on October 4, 2013. Retrieved November 24, 2013.
McCarthy, John (February 4, 1995). "Progress and its sustainability". formal.stanford.edu. Archived from the original on October 4, 2013. Retrieved November 24, 2013.
"Tree of John McCarthy students for the Computer History Exhibits". infolab.Stanford.edu. April 21, 2012. Archived from the original on December 2, 2013. Retrieved November 24, 2013.
McCarthy, John (June 28, 2001). "The Robot and the Baby". formal.stanford.edu. Archived from the original on October 4, 2013. Retrieved November 24, 2013.
Thomson, Cask J. (October 26, 2011). "The Death of TRUE Tech Innovators D. Ritchie & J. McCarthy – Yet the Death of Steve Jobs Overshadows All". WordsWithMeaning blog. Archived from the original on April 26, 2012.
"Biography of Carolyn Talcott". Stanford University. Archived from the original on December 2, 2013.
"About John McCarthy". Stanford University. Archived from the original on October 4, 2013. Retrieved February 1, 2013.
McCarthy, John (March 7, 2003). "Commentary on World, US, and scientific affairs". Stanford University. Archived from the original on October 4, 2013. Retrieved February 1, 2013. By the way I'm an atheist.
Earnest, Les. "Biographies of John McCarthy". Stanford University. Archived from the original on June 11, 2016. Retrieved February 14, 2016.
CHM. "John McCarthy – CHM Fellow Award Winner". Archived from the original on April 3, 2015. Retrieved March 30, 2015.[1] Archived April 3, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
Zeng, Daniel (2011). "AI's Hall of Fame" (PDF). IEEE Intelligent Systems. 26 (4): 5–15. Bibcode:2011IISys..26d...5Z. doi:10.1109/MIS.2011.64. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 16, 2011. Retrieved September 4, 2015.

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Feigenbaum, Edward (December 2012). "McCarthy as Scientist and Engineer, with Personal Recollections". AI Magazine. 33 (4): 17–18. doi:10.1609/aimag.v33i4.2442. ISSN 0738-4602.

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Thomson, Cask J. (October 26, 2011). "The Death of TRUE Tech Innovators D. Ritchie & J. McCarthy – Yet the Death of Steve Jobs Overshadows All". WordsWithMeaning blog. Archived from the original on April 26, 2012.

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Feigenbaum, Edward (December 2012). "McCarthy as Scientist and Engineer, with Personal Recollections". AI Magazine. 33 (4): 17–18. doi:10.1609/aimag.v33i4.2442. ISSN 0738-4602.
McCarthy, John; Minsky, Marvin L.; Rochester, Nathaniel; Shannon, Claude E. (December 15, 2006). "A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, August 31, 1955". AI Magazine. 27 (4): 12–12. doi:10.1609/aimag.v27i4.1904. ISSN 2371-9621.

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Mishlove, Jeffrey (November 3, 2011). John McCarthy (1927-2011): Artificial Intelligence (complete) – Thinking Allowed. YouTube (video). Archived from the original on March 24, 2013. Retrieved August 8, 2022. Also, with the same title. Ghost Archive. Archived from the original on July 31, 2021. Retrieved August 8, 2022.{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
ThinkingAllowedTV (November 3, 2011). John McCarthy (1927-2011): Artificial Intelligence (complete) - Thinking Allowed -Jeffrey Mishlove. Retrieved December 2, 2025 – via YouTube.

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