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Born September 4th 1927, John McCarthy was a computer scientist that created the field of artificial intelligence and coined the term "AI". He earned his bachelor's degree from the California Institute of Technology, and he was a professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. John McCarthy pioneered Commonsense Reasoning. He also created LISP, a language used by those who worked in AI, and worked on the earliest time-sharing systems. He also aided Elephant 2000, a language that had semantic features. He also founded the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab which is now leading in the field of AI. In 1971, he earned the ACM Turing Award and became president of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. Then, he won the 1988 Kyoto prize, the 1990 National Medal of Science, and the 2003 Benjamin Franklin Medal. Unfortunately, he died on October 24th 2011 at the age of 84 with his accomplishments shared during the 2012 AAAI Spring Symposium.