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John McCarthy
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McCarthy coined the term “artificial intelligence” in the 1955 proposal for the 1956 Dartmouth workshop, created Lisp, pioneered computer time-sharing and logic-based commonsense reasoning, and founded Stanford AI Lab. He received the 1971 Turing Award.
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Background
Previously
1962-2011Professor of Computer Science (emeritus from 2001), 
Stanford University
Stanford University1958-1962Faculty; co-founder, Artificial Intelligence Project, 
MIT
MIT1955-1958Assistant Professor; organizer, 1956 Dartmouth AI workshop, 
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth CollegeEducation
Caltech
Princeton UniversityLifespan1927–2011
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