While at MIT, McCarthy developed LISP, which became the standard programming language of the artificial intelligence community, but would also permeate the computing world at large.

John McCarthy, the creator of the Lisp programming language and a pioneer in artificial intelligence, has died. He was 84.

John McCarthy, a computer scientist who invented the Lisp programming language and a pioneer in artificial intelligence (AI), has died aged 84.

John McCarthy, best known for coining the term “artificial intelligence” over five decades ago and inventing the programming language Lisp, died on Oct. 23. He was 84 years old.

John McCarthy, the man widely regarded as having coined the term Artificial Intelligence in 1955, has died aged 84. McCarthy was also the creator of the Lisp programming language, published in ...

John McCarthy, 1927-2011 John McCarthy died, leaving behind a legacy as the father of AI and a pioneer of the Lisp programming language.

The creator of Lisp and arguably the father of modern artificial intelligence, John McCarthy, died last night. He studied mathematics with the famous John Nash at Princeton and, notably, held the ...

McCarthy, on the other hand, is the father of Lisp, one of the earliest programming languages. In many ways, C and Lisp are opposites in terms of design, implementation, and approach.

John McCarthy, creator of the Lisp programming language and pioneer in utility computing —the forerunner of today’s cloud computing—died Sunday in Stanford, California.

In the years to come, he would go on invent LISP — one of the world’s most influential programming languages — and he played a major role in the development of time-sharing systems. Nextbigfuture ...