Description
Correspondence, memos, reports, course
materials, newsletters, articles, reprints, computer manuals, and other materials pertaining
to McCarthy's research and his teaching at Stanford and MIT. Correspondents include Forest
Baskett, Donald Knuth, Serge Lang, Joshua Lederberg, Douglas Lenat, Donald Michie, Hans
Moravec, Zohar Manna, Aaron Sloman, and Masahiko Sato. Also included are correspondence,
reprints, programs, notes, and articles from his work with Russian computer scientists,
1958-78.
Background
McCarthy was born on Sept. 4, 1927, in Boston. He earned his undergraduate degree from the
California Institute of Technology in 1948 and his PhD at Princeton in 1951, both in
mathematics. He was an instructor at Princeton from 1951 until 1953 when he came to Stanford
as an assistant professor. In 1955, he left for Dartmouth and then for MIT before returning
to Stanford for good in 1962 as a full professor of computer science.
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