case study

       John McCarthy                     (September 4, 1927 – October 24, 2011)

john McCarthy, an American computer scientist pioneer and inventor, is known as the father of Artificial Intelligence (AI) after playing a seminal role in defining the field devoted to the development of intelligent machines.

 The cognitive scientist coined the term in his 1955 proposal for the 1956 Dartmouth Conference, the first artificial intelligence conference.

John McCarthy was born in Boston to Irish and Lithuanian immigrants in 1927. During the Depression the family moved many times, eventually arriving in Los Angeles, where his father was an organiser for a clothing workers' union and his mother was active in the women's suffrage movement.

In 1965, McCarthy became the founding director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL), where research was conducted into machine intelligence, graphical interactive computing, and autonomous vehicles.

McCarthy was chosen as the 1971 winner of the ACM Turing Award, and was awarded the Kyoto Prize (1988) and the National Medal of Science (1990).

McCarthy created the term "artificial intelligence" and was a towering figure in computer science at Stanford most of his professional life. In his career, he developed the programming language LISP (in 1958) , played computer chess via telegraph with opponents in Russia and invented computer time-sharing.

I have never knew before who was the main founder of artificial intelligence , and in this case study research i have managed to know who it was and how much influence he did on this field .

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