Title
McCarthy (John) oral history
Catalog Number
102658125
Type
Moving image
Description
Computer science legend John McCarthy speaks with Stanford University AI researcher and professor of computer science, Nil Nilsson. McCarthy discusses his early academic training and influences at Caltech and Princeton University. He then describes his early work at MIT and Dartmouth College in which he helped organize the highly influential Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, the seminal first conference in the field. McCarthy then discusses his work at Stanford University and briefly summarizes some of the mathematical underpinnings of the logical models he uses in explaining and understanding computer systems.
Date
2007-09-12
Participants
McCarthy, John, Interviewee
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Nilsson, Nils J., Interviewer
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Publisher
Computer History Museum
Place of Publication
Mountain View, California
Format
DVCAM
Category
Oral history
Subject
McCarthy, John; Artificial intelligence (AI)
Collection Title
CHM Oral History Collection