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John McCarthy, 1927 – 2011

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Credit: Hector Garcia Molina

Winner of the 1971 A.M. Turing Award, John McCarthy was a founder of artificial intelligence and inventor of the Lisp programming language.

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John is a Hall of Famer in computing.

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