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John McCarthy
1927-

  John McCarthy is an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist.

He received the
Turing Award in 1971 for his major contributions to the field of Artificial Intelligence.

He was responsible for the coining of the term "Artificial Intelligence" in his 1955 proposal for the 1956 Dartmouth Conference.

He is the inventor of the
Lisp programming language.