born: September 4, 1927
death: October 24, 2011,
education:
John McCarthy received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton was awarded A. M. Turing Award of the Association for Computing Machinery,
He also received the first Research Excellence Award of the International Joint Conference on Artificia inteligency
achivements His main achievement he was the inventor of the LISP programing language that started many ideas in computer science,
data structures, recursion automatic storage management and the self-hosting compiler. and he also created the term artificial intelligence