John McCarthy, the creator of Lisp

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• the creator of LISP
   (invent LISP in 1958, first implemented by Steve Russell in machine code on IBM704 in 1959 ?) 
• the father of AI (artificial intelligence)?
  [proposed/coined  the term AI  in 1956 Dartmouth Conference]
• a computer scientist
• a cognitive scientist
• 1959, garbage collection for LISP
• 1971, Turing award
• died suddenly at home in Stanford in the early morning Monday, Oct. 24 2011.

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• born in  Boston, Massachusetts
• father : John Patrick,  Irish immigrant 
• mother: Ida Glatt McCarthy, Lithuanian Jewish immigrant
  (? 從母姓, 用父名)
• was married three times.
  his 2nd wife : Vera Watson, a programmer and mountaineer who died in 1978 attempting to scale Annapurna I.
  his 3rd wife : Carolyn Talcott, a computer scientist
  

•  taught himself mathematics at an early age
• 1948, B.S. in math,  Caltech
• 1951, Ph.D. in math, Princeton
• bushed around Princeton, Stanford, Dartmouth, MIT
• 1962, full professor at Stanford
• 2000, retired

//=== Progress and its Sustainability
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/



[ref]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_(computer_scientist)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language)

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/october/john-mccarthy-obit-102511.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/24/father_lisp_ai_john_mccarthy_dies/