Professor John McCarthy
Father of AI

Articles

Making the Peaks Higher

A proposal to encourage great students to become even better.

We propose to offer a prize of $10,000 and several smaller prizes to a student under 17 who does best on an exam on a graduate level mathematics book specified a year in advance. The slogan is Make the peaks higher. The prize will encourage someone who will do extremely well in mathematics to do even better.

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