Shortly after, in 1956, computer scientist John McCarthy instigated the Dartmouth Conference, an organized event aimed at moving forward serious scientific development of AI. His proposal summed ...

But John McCarthy -- the man who coined the term and pioneered the field of AI research -- didn't see it that way. As far back as the mid-60s, chess was called the "Drosophila of artificial ...

John started it.” McCarthy was a young assistant professor at Dartmouth College when he organized the world’s first artificial intelligence conference. The objective was to explore ways to ...

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 ...

The professor was John McCarthy, and his efforts in the field of Artificial Intelligent has earned him the title of the “Father of AI”. But beyond what his exemplary work in setting up the ...

"In my mind, Google is all about artificial intelligence…what John McCarthy stood for matters,” he said. McCarthy was the son of a union organizer, also John McCarthy, who had left the little ...

John started it.” McCarthy was a young assistant professor at Dartmouth College when he organized the world’s first artificial intelligence conference. The objective was to explore ways to ...