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John McCarthy, a Rare card
John McCarthy was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 73
- DEF
- 56
- Power
- 129
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 250,000
Power 129 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
John McCarthy quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the John McCarthy card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
McCarthy spent most of his ______ at Stanford University.
Answer
career. McCarthy spent most of his career at Stanford University. From the John McCarthy article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
2026 Rio de Janeiro mid-air collision. 2026 Rio de Janeiro mid-air collision 900,000 · Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem 670,000 · John McCarthy 250,000 · History of the firearm 190,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He was one of the founders of the discipline of artificial intelligence, and part of just a small group of artificial intelligence researchers in the 1950s and 1960s.
- He co-authored the proposal for the Dartmouth workshop which coined the term "artificial intelligence", led the development of the symbolic programming language family Lisp and had a large influence in the language ALGOL, popularized time-sharing, and created garbage collection.
- McCarthy spent most of his career at Stanford University.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The John McCarthy article was read about 250,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 73 and blocks with 56: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
How to get John McCarthy
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, John McCarthy (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : "null0", CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
