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John McCarthy is the author named on the review of The Question of Artificial Intelligence hosted on his Stanford pages.

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What it connects

John McCarthy → authored → Review of The Question of Artificial Intelligence (Brian Bloomfield, ed., Croom Helm)

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Claim and evidence

John McCarthyauthored ↓Review of The Question of Artificial Intelligence (Brian Bloomfield, ed., Croom Helm)

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The evidence 01

primary sourceSupports the claim

Review of The Question of Artificial Intelligence, Brian Bloomfield, ed.

John McCarthy's pages at Stanford (www-formal.stanford.edu) · Publication date unknown

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Paraphrase

The page ends with the signature block 'John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford University'.

Location in source Signature block at the foot of the page

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

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 b2d0a5f40b99339f4871035960add7ab06f9a7bc2bdd25ce1082897dbf667640). Author's HTML page; the review carries no publication date in the retrieved text, and the page footer is a generation stamp 'Tue Jun 13 03:06:03 PDT 2000'. Where the review was printed was not established from a retrieved source. jmc.stanford.edu refused (connection closed); this is the www-formal host. Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated.
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Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: John McCarthy, “Review of The Question of Artificial Intelligence, Brian Bloomfield, ed.”.
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Check notes: Candidate pack passage, Kinds of AI and technical history (research/technical-history). The paraphrase is Selekoa’s, written from the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29; it is not a quotation and was not machine-matched. No human editorial review.

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Relation. Authorship as credited in the document. Does not imply sole authorship.

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