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John McCarthy was born on September 4th, 1927 in Boston, Massachusetts. He is considered the father of AI. He was admitted to the California Institute of Technology in 1944, but one year later he moved to Princeton. He graduated with a PhD in 1951, and taught at Princeton until 1953, when he moved to be an assistant professor at Stanford University for 2 years. Afterwards, he moved to Dartmouth University, where at a conference in 1956, he created the term “artificial intelligence”. He moved to MIT, where he and Marvin Minsky created the Artificial Intelligence Project. In 1958, he created the programming language LISP, the second oldest programming language in existence, which is still used today for programming AI. In 1965, he became leader of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab, where research was done about automated processes. In 1966, he gained attention by hosting four simultaneous chess matches using computer telegraphs against people in Russia, something that had not been done before. McCarthy won the Turing Award in 1971. He retired in 2000 and died 11 years later on October 24, 2011 at the age of 84. |
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Accomplishments in Computer Science:
The programming language LISP.
Sources:
https://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/october/john-mccarthy-obit-102511.html
https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/mccarthy_1118322.cfm
https://computerhistory.org/profile/john-mccarthy/
https://sites.google.com/wheelermagnet.com/john-leiths-portfolio/home?authuser=1