-
John McCarthy was born on September 4, 1927.
-
At the age of 16, McCarthy enrolled at California Institute of Technology.
-
John McCarthy earned a B.S.in mathematics in 1949 at California Institute of Technology.
-
In 1951, McCarthy received a Ph. D. in mathematics from Princeton University.
-
In 1955, McCarthy became an assistant professor at Dartmouth College in New York. At Dartmouth College, McCarthy would make headway in artificial intelligence.
-
In a series of published works titled "Automata Studies", McCarthy created the term "artificial intelligence."
-
In the summer of 1955, the Dartmouth Summer Project on Artificial Intelligence went underway. This project investigated if "intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that that a machine can be made to stimulate it" (Andresen 84). This project created the foundation of artificial intelligence having logical thinking and playing games.
-
John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky founded the AI laboratory at MIT in 1957.
-
In 1959, McCarthy wrote "Programs With Common Sense." This paper is otherwise known as the "advice-taker paper." In this paper, McCarthy proposed the idea of computers taking a command and then accomplishing that command. This paper is the foundation of many tasks AI can accomplish today, such as self-driving cars.
-
John McCarthy is the creator of the programming language LISP. LISP was the second programming language ever created, behind FORTRAN. LISP is still widely used today. LISP also further allowed AI to make logical deductions through the use of listing instructions.
-
McCarthy became one of the first professors of the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University.
-
In 1963, McCarthy founded an AI laboratory at Stanford University.
-
Due to all his outstanding work with computers science, McCarthy received the Turing Award in 1972.
-
McCarthy has also received other notable awards:
Research
-1985 Excellence Award of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
-1988 Kyoto Prize
-1980 National Medal of Science
-2003 Benjamin Franklin Medal -
One of the most popular uses of AI in modern society is the Apple iPhone's Siri. McCarthy's groundbreaking work on AI paved the way for AI creations such as Siri.
-
On October 24, 2011, John McCarthy passed away at the age of 84.
-
Another popular product containing AI is Amazon's Alexa. Alexa can follow many tasks, such as setting appointments, analyzing traffic routes, as well as ordering products.
You are not authorized to access this page.