John McCarthy- Father of AI

AI outperforms in all the fields like medicine, transportation, commerce etc. It automates tasks without human intervention. AI is one of the amazing technologies and inspires everyone. John McCarthy, the father of Artificial intelligence and great innovators in the field of AI and computer science

The scientists coined the term “AI”, in the mid of 1950. In addition to AI, he contributed to cognitive and computer science field. He was a great computer scientist at the University of Stanford who invented LISP and Time sharing as well as originated AI. First, the delivered the definition of AI at the conference held at Dartmouth college campus on 1956. He invented Lisp language that used in robotics as well as in other scientific applications, internet based services like credit card fraud, personalisation, airline scheduling etc

McCarthy founded AI laboratory at Stanford University and worked on self-driving car. He continuously worked to make computer think and mimic human decision making and common sense. He published his research works on robot consciousness as well as free will.

Another well-known innovation of McCarthy was early system of computer time sharing or networking that enables many people for sharing data through linking to a central device. In 1960s, he pointed out, “computation be organised as public utility in someday” that the underlying concept of cloud computing

In 1966, the scientist hosted serious of 4 computer chess matches performed against rivals in Russia via telegraph. The matches were continued for several months. The matches made the great attention towards McCarthy

McCarthy is a American Scientists, who received a doctorate in Mathematics on 1951 from Princeton University. He held professorship at various institutions like Standard University (1953-55 as well as 1962-2000), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1958 to 1962), Dartmouth College (1955 to 1958). His contribution in AI is the great achievement for him. His contribution in the field of computer science recognised widely and received numerous awards such as

  • Turning Award in 1971 from Association of Computing Machinery
  • Kyoto Price in 1988
  • National medal of Science in Mathematics, Computational Sciences and Statistical by USA in 1990
  • Benjamin Franklin Medal by Franklin Institute in computers and cognitive science in 2003