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Coiner of the term AI, John McCarthy dies
AMERICAN COMPUTER SCIENTIST John McCarthy, who coined the term 'artificial intelligence' (AI), has died aged 84.
McCarthy was famous for coming up with the concept of 'artificial intelligence' in 1955. He also created the powerful programming language called Lisp in 1960 that is still in use today.
For a large part of his life he was a professor at Stanford University and proposed the Dartmouth conference that was a seminal event in the development of AI as a scientific field.
Stanford Engineering tweeted, "sadly, we have confirmed that John McCarthy passed away Oct. 23."
"John McCarthy coined the term "artificial intelligence" & never stopped working to give machines the gift of common sense."
In his lifetime he was awarded a number of honours for his work in computer science, including the Turing Award in 1971 and the National Medal of Science in 1991. µ
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In the passing away of Dr.John McCarthy the computer world ;lost a legendary who invented Artificial Intelligence and Lisp Programming.As a mathematician, he championed the use of logic in AI, and invented the programming language Lisp in 1958, a multi-paradigm high-level language that quickly became the language of choice for artificial intelligence research. October 2011 is a dark month in the history of digital world as we lost 3 giants Steve Jobs,Dr.Dennis Ritchie and Dr.John McCarthy. Some people live after death and John McCarthy is one amongst them.
Dr.A.Jagadeesh Nellore(AP),India
E-mail: anumakonda.jagadeesh@gmail.com
A brilliant man, for sure. May he rest in peace.
Regarding the origin of the term “artificial intelligence”, as it pertains to computers, I think he may not have been the first. In the 1946 publication “Proceedings of the Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability”, by Jerzy Neyman, Lucien M. Le Cam and Elizabeth L. Scott, the term “artificial intelligence” - in reference to cybernetics and thinking machines - is used repeatedly.