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John McCarthy (September 4, 1927 – October 24, 2011) was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist. He was one of the founders of the discipline of artificial intelligence . [1]
John McCarthy (born September 4, 1927, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.—died October 24, 2011, Stanford, California) was an American mathematician and computer scientist who was a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence (AI); his main research in the field involved the formalization of commonsense knowledge.
Sep 4, 2020 · On September 4, 1927, American computer scientist and cognitive scientist John McCarthy was born. He was one of the founders of the discipline of artificial intelligence.
Jan 1, 2011 · It was McCarthy who pioneered the attempt to formalize ordinary commonsense reasoning within the formal languages that had been used to represent mathematical truths. 1 McCarthy realized that commonsense reasoning was ubiquitous in intelligent behavior, and that therefore, a truly intelligent machine had to be capable of performing commonsense r...
Oct 24, 2011 · John was a legendary computer scientist at Stanford University who developed time-sharing, invented LISP, and founded the field of Artificial Intelligence. In March 2011 John launched Project JMC with the objective to make his work more approachable and accessible.
Oct 25, 2011 · John McCarthy, a professor emeritus of computer science at Stanford, the man who coined the term "artificial intelligence" and subsequently went on to define the field for more than five decades, died suddenly at his home in Stanford in the early morning Monday, Oct. 24. He was 84.
John McCarthy (1927-2011) was a giant in the field of artificial intelligence. Credited with coining the term “artificial intelligence,” he subsequently went on to define the discipline for more than five decades from his professorship at Stanford.
Nov 30, 2011 · The scientist who set computers on the path to common sense. In 1955, a group of scientists approached the Rockefeller Foundation with a request to fund “a 2 month, 10 man study...
L. Earnest, John McCarthy (1927-2011), December 2011. John McCarthy introduced the term “artificial intelligence” to identify his principal interest and created the LISP programming language to help develop that field.
The Department of Computer Science is saddened to report that Emeritus Professor John McCarthy died on October 24, 2011 at age 84. John was one of the founders of artificial intelligence (AI), coining that name in 1955.
