The 4th of September is the 75th anniversary of John McCarthy, professor of the Stanford University, one of the founders of modern computer science.
It is hardly possible to enumerate all his achievements in this field. Now, when working with lists, programmers do not even remember that it is McCarthy who has introduced this notion. He has designed the Lisp language and took part in the development of Algol 60 and many other languages and software systems.
John McCarthy was a friend of A.P. Ershov. He visited Akademgorodok many times and took part in the 2nd All-Union Conference on Programming and other scientific meetings. He delivered lectures at the Novosibirsk State University and was a guest of the Summer school of young programmers. The older staff members of our Institute had a lucky chance to work with him and to feel extraordinary attraction of his personality.
We send Prof. McCarthy our cordial congratulations and the very best wishes.
There are a lot of documents associated with the name of John McCarthy in Academician Ershov's Archive.