{"id":1771,"date":"2011-10-24T14:39:50","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T20:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/24\/in-memory-of-john-mccarthy"},"modified":"2011-10-24T14:39:50","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T20:39:50","slug":"in-memory-of-john-mccarthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/24\/in-memory-of-john-mccarthy","title":{"rendered":"In Memory of John McCarthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a little strange, considering that it wasn&#8217;t long ago that <a href=\"http:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/13\/in-memory-of-dennis-ritchie\">Dennis Ritchie died<\/a>, but I just learned that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_McCarthy_(computer_scientist)\">John McCarthy<\/a> has died. Like Ritchie, his wasn&#8217;t a household name (unless your household happens to be full of computer geeks), but he also made a number of contributions which changed the nature of computing. He coined the term &#8220;artificial intelligence&#8221;, invented the LISP programming language, and even anticipated a number of very contemporary network-based technologies such as web-based applications and cloud computing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a little strange, considering that it wasn&#8217;t long ago that Dennis Ritchie died, but I just learned that John McCarthy has died. Like Ritchie, his wasn&#8217;t a household name (unless your household happens to be full of computer geeks), but he also made a number of contributions which changed the nature of computing.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/24\/in-memory-of-john-mccarthy\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In Memory of John McCarthy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}