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.
IJCAI Award for Research Excellence (1985)
Princeton University, California Institute of TechnologyĪrtificial intelligence, Lisp, circumscription, situation calculus
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