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John McCarthy, one of the fathers of artificial intelligence, died Sunday. He was 84. In 1958, while at MIT, McCarthy invented the programming language LISP, which has become the main language for ...

Just one week after Steve Jobs succumbed to cancer, mourners took to social networks and message boards to note the passing of computer scientist Dennis Ritchie, an event that was largely overlooked ...

When IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer won its famous chess rematch with then world champion Garry Kasparov in May 1997, the victory was hailed far and wide as a triumph of artificial intelligence. But ...

John McCarthy, creator of the Lisp programming language and pioneer in utility computing—the forerunner of today’s cloud computing—died Sunday in Stanford, California. He was 84. AI master: John ...

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In the mid-1950s, mathematician John McCarthy issued a call for research on “Automata Studies,” but few people understood what he meant. So he came up with a more provocative description. He called it ...

It might be a stretch to suggest that there'd be no AI without John McCarthy, but at the very least, we'd likely be discussing the concept much differently. The computer scientist, who died on Sunday ...

Wired – John McCarthy was the man who coined the term ‘artificial intelligence’. He organized the Dartmouth Summer Research Conference on Artificial Intelligence in 1956. McCarthy not only added a ...