KIDS TRIVIA

Detailed explanation-1: -John McCarthy began developing Lisp in 1958 while he was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). McCarthy published its design in a paper in Communications of the ACM in April 1960, entitled “Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine, Part I".

Detailed explanation-2: -John McCarthy, (born September 4, 1927, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.-died October 24, 2011, Stanford, California), American mathematician and computer scientist who was a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence (AI); his main research in the field involved the formalization of commonsense knowledge.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1958, he proposed the advice taker, which inspired later work on question-answering and logic programming. In the late 1950s, McCarthy discovered that primitive recursive functions could be extended to compute with symbolic expressions, producing the Lisp programming language.