John McCarthy, the creator of the Lisp programming language and a pioneer in artificial intelligence, has died.
McCarthy died Monday, Stanford University’s School of Engineeringannounced in a tweet.
McCarthy was born in Boston in 1927 to immigrant socialist parents, who moved frequently during the Depression.
When McCarthy enrolled at Caltech, he was allowed to forgo the first two years of mathematics curriculum.
McCarthy joined the Stanford faculty in 1962 after short appointments at Princeton, Dartmouth and MIT.
He retired in 2000.
