John McCarthyBorn 4 Sep 1927. American computer scientist, the father of research in artificial intelligence (AI), who coined that term in 1956. Shortly after joining the faculty at M.I.T. (1958), he founded the first AI laboratory there.He created LISP (List Processing Language), the computer language most commonly used in AI research. Although he believed intelligence is made up of logic and common sense that can be mathematically represented, his optimism that artificially intelligent robots can be constructed to be more intelligent than human beings has yet to be fulfilled. He developed interactive time-sharing on computers to facilitate hundreds of people to use one large computer together.« |
