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%3INVENTORY OF PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS%1
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%3John McCarthy%1, age 52, Professor of Computer Science and Director of the
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Stanford University.
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%3Degrees:%*\B.S. California Institute of Technology, 1948, mathematics
\PhD Princeton, 1951, mathematics
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%3Positions:%*
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\1951-53\Instructor in mathematics, Princeton
\1953-55\Acting Assistant Professor of mathematics, Stanford
\1955-58\Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Dartmouth
\1958-62\Assistant and Associate Professor of Communication Science, M.I.T.
\1962-\Professor of Computer Science, Stanford
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%3Research:%*\artificial intelligence, mathematics of computer programs,
\programming languages, time-sharing computer systems,
\technology and society.
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My current interests include the above, but this year I expect to
concentrate on the epistemological problems of artificial intelligence
and their interaction with problems of philosophy. This will be
in collaboration with the other members of the group on philosophy and
artificial intelligence.
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