John McCarthy

Recursive functions of symbolic expressions and their computation by machine, Part I

John McCarthy · Communications of the ACM · 1960 · 1.4K citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Science, Algorithms +7

Revised report on the algorithmic language ALGOL 60

John Backus, Friedrich L. Bauer, J. Green et al. · Communications of the ACM · 1963 · 909 citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Science, Mathematics +3

Report on the algorithmic language ALGOL 60

John Backus, Friedrich L. Bauer, J. Green et al. · Communications of the ACM · 1960 · 495 citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Science, Algorithms +4

Towards a Mathematical Science of Computation.

John McCarthy · 1962 · 454 citations

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Physics +15

Evidence that the cycloheximide-sensitive site of adrenocorticotropic hormone action is in the mitochondrion. Changes in pregnenolone formation, cholesterol content, and the electron paramagnetic resonance spectra of cytochrome P-450.

E R Simpson, John McCarthy, Jerry A. Peterson · Journal of Biological Chemistry · 1978 · 215 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Pharmacology +17