In 1962, McCarthy became a full professor at Stanford, where he remained until his retirement in 2000. By the end of his years at MIT he was already affectionately referred to as "Uncle John" by his students. Academic career Īfter short-term appointments at Princeton and Stanford University, McCarthy became an assistant professor at Dartmouth in 1955.Ī year later, McCarthy moved to MIT as a research fellow in the autumn of 1956. He received a PhD in mathematics from Princeton in 1951 after completing a doctoral dissertation, titled " Projection operators and partial differential equations", under the supervision of Donald C. McCarthy initially completed graduate studies at Caltech before moving to Princeton University. It was at Caltech that he attended a lecture by John von Neumann that inspired his future endeavors. He then served in the US Army and was readmitted, receiving a BS in mathematics in 1948. McCarthy was suspended from Caltech for failure to attend physical education courses. As a result, he was able to skip the first two years of mathematics at Caltech. McCarthy showed an early aptitude for mathematics during his teens he taught himself college mathematics by studying the textbooks used at the nearby California Institute of Technology (Caltech). McCarthy was accepted into Caltech in 1944. McCarthy graduated from Belmont High School two years early. John was fluent in the Russian language and made friends with Russian scientists during multiple trips to the Soviet Union but he became disillusioned after making visits to the Soviet Bloc which led to him becoming a conservative Republican. Before he attended high school, he got interested in science by reading a translation of a Russian popular science book for children, called 100,000 Whys.
īoth parents were active members of the Communist Party during the 1930s, and they encouraged learning and critical thinking. His father came from Cromane, a small fishing village in County Kerry, Ireland. The family was obliged to relocate frequently during the Great Depression, until McCarthy's father found work as an organizer for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers in Los Angeles, California. John McCarthy was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on September 4, 1927, to an Irish immigrant father and a Lithuanian Jewish immigrant mother, John Patrick and Ida (Glatt) McCarthy. 6 Philosophy of artificial intelligence.He received many accolades and honors, such as the 1971 Turing Award for his contributions to the topic of AI, the United States National Medal of Science, and the Kyoto Prize. McCarthy spent most of his career at Stanford University. He co-authored the document that coined the term " artificial intelligence" (AI), developed the programming language family Lisp, significantly influenced the design of the language ALGOL, popularized time-sharing, and invented garbage collection. He was one of the founders of the discipline of artificial intelligence. John McCarthy (Septem– October 24, 2011) was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist. Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, IJCAI Award for Research Excellence (1985)
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We have chosen the book On the Road (1957) by the American Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), the American television series The Walking Dead (2010), based on the homonymous comics.Princeton University, California Institute of TechnologyĪrtificial intelligence, Lisp, circumscription, situation calculus This is the starting point for the analyzes of this work, which are anchored in the loss of identity when traveling within an unsettling territory, based on a dystopia. Often, dystopia presents itself as an account of an individual trapped in his own territory, who sees the structures of what he knew as normal crumble, whether by an apocalyptic plague, or by a fatal upsurge in society around him. A dystopia is not merely an account of a terrible future, such as George Orwell’s (1903-1950) novel 1984 (1949) or Alan Moore’s graphic novel 1988)8. Far from being only the research of a new place, therefore, every voyage is also a confrontation of what is familiar with what is not, generating a clash of values that can lead to different reflections upon the local. One must understand a travel account, whatever it may be, as the mixture of a new record, of a quasi-scientific nature, supported by an earlier inheritance of cultural, social, linguistic characteristics, usually linked to a national origin that will give the records its measures. Book Chapter: Every travel report carries with it the indissociable function of narrating a change that has occurred in its rapporteur.
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