John McCarthy

Stanford University

John McCarthy has been Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University since 1962. His research is mainly in artificial intelligence. Long ago he originated the Lisp programming language and the initial research on general purpose time-sharing computer systems. More can be found in his Web page John McCarthy’s home page. As a public service, he has created a Web page on the sustainability of material progress. Material progress is indeed sustainable.

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9:55am - 10:20am Wednesday, 03/05/2008

Elephant 2000: A Programming Language for the year 2015 Based on Speech Acts

Keynote
Location: Marina Ballroom D

John McCarthy (Stanford University)

Elephant 2000 is a proposed programming language good for writing and verifying programs that interact with people (e.g. transaction processing) or interact with programs belonging to other organizations (e.g. electronic data interchange) Read more.

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