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John McCarthy is Professor of Computer of Science at Stanford University
and one of the founders of artificial intelligence research.  He invented
the LISP, the programming language most used in AI research and also
first proposed the general purpose time-sharing mode of using computers.
The emphasis of his AI research has been in identifying the common
sense rules that determine the consequences of actions and other events,
the expression of such rules and other common sense information as
sentences in logical languages in the data bases of artificial intelligent
programs.  He has also worked on formalizing common sense reasoning,
and his recent work has concerned non-monotonic common sense reasoning.
He is President-Elect of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence
and a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Artificial Intelligence.