Claim · 2007-11-12 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

John McCarthy is the author named on 'What is Artificial Intelligence?' (revised 2007-11-12).

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John McCarthy → authored → What is Artificial Intelligence?

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Claim and evidence

John McCarthyauthored ↓What is Artificial Intelligence?

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Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 2007-11-12 · publication Records dated 2007 →

Scope and limitsByline on the title page.

The evidence 01

primary sourceSupports the claim

What is Artificial Intelligence? (title page)

John McCarthy's pages at Stanford (www-formal.stanford.edu) · 2007-11-12

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Source excerpt

“John McCarthy Computer Science Department”

Location in source Title page, author block

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Machine-checked · 2026-10-31

Source details and check notes

Authors: John McCarthy
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 4ac7ecd6c98f6347ea9dc6b35363b311ae598d1e9f92e2af9e5be75dd2125162). Title page with abstract and the line 'Revised November 12, 2007'. Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated.
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Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: John McCarthy, “What is Artificial Intelligence? (title page)”, 2007-11-12.
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Check notes: Candidate pack passage, Kinds of AI and technical history (research/technical-history). The quotation (5 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes, PDF line-break hyphens and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review.

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Record ID th-authored-mccarthy-2007