Oral history interview with John McCarthy, 1989 Mar. 2.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Oral history interview with John McCarthy, 1989 Mar. 2.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63307054

McCarthy begins this interview with a discussion of the initial establishment and development of time-sharing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the role he played in it. He then describes his subsequent move to Stanford in 1962 and the beginnings of his work in artificial intelligence (AI) funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). This work developed in two general directions: logic-based AI (LISP) and robotics.

Computer data (1 file : 37K)

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7886056

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Related Entities

There are 4 Entities related to this resource.

United States. Department of Defense. Information Processing Techniques Office

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6553c34 (corporateBody)

In 1964, the Behavioral Sciences, Command and Control Research Office was split into the Behavioral Sciences Office (BSO) that covered the behavioral science functions and the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) that took over the Command and Control Research (CCR) functions.The Information Processing Techniques Office was dedicated to developing advanced information processing and computer communications technologies for critical military and national security applications. In its a...

Aspray, William,

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ws99bf (person)

Formal Reasoning Group (Organization : U.S.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6w1618h (corporateBody)

McCarthy, John, 1927-2011

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6k39228 (person)

Head of Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from the early 1960s until 1980. From the description of Oral history interview with John McCarthy, 1989 Mar. 2. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63307054 John McCarthy, after earning his Ph.D. in mathematics at Princeton in 1951, taught at Stanford, Dartmouth, and MIT. In 1962 he returned to Stanford as professor of computer science. From 1965 to 1980 he was organizer and director of Stanford's A...