John McCarthy

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John McCarthy, Born September 4, 1927 in Boston Massachusetts, Died October 24, 2011 California(84), was an American Mathematician and a computer scientist who was one of the ‘founders’ of artificial intelligence. . In a well-known 1958 paper, he proposed that “knowledge needed by AI programs should be represented in declarative rather than being encoded within the programs that use that knowledge.” He ‘coined’ the term AI in 1955 in connection with a proposed summer workshop at Dartmouth. “Sentences can be true in much wider contexts than specific programs can be useful.” He received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology and a doctorate in Mathematics from Princeton University, where he also briefly taught. 1965, McCarthy became the founding director of the SAIL(Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. There, research was conducted into machine intelligence, graphical interactive computing, and autonomous vehicles.