John McCarthy, Man behind Garbage Collection

John McCarthy was one of the most influential Computer Scientists in 1950s and a Professor at Stanford University for nearly 38 years. He is best known for:

Developed LISP Programming Language
Inventing Garbage Collection (which is widely used and popularized by Java)
Inventing the word "Artificial Intelligence" (AI) and is one of the founding members of the domain
First person to propose the idea of Utility/ Cloud Computing publically
Contributed greatly to ALGOL Programming Language

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