John McCarthy, Stanford, Father Of AI

John McCarthy (September 4, 1927 – October 24, 2011) was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist. He was one of the founders of the discipline of artificial intelligence,^[1] and part of just a small group of artificial intelligence researchers in the 1950s and 1960s.^[2] He co-authored the proposal for the Dartmouth workshop which coined the term "artificial intelligence" (AI), led the development of the symbolic programming language family Lisp and had a large influence in the language ALGOL, popularized time-sharing, and created garbage collection ^[3].

McCarthy spent most of his career at Stanford University.^[4] He received many accolades and honors, such as the 1971 Turing Award for his contributions to the topic of AI,^[5] the United States National Medal of Science, and the Kyoto Prize.

Academic career

After short-term appointments at Princeton and Stanford University, McCarthy became an assistant professor at Dartmouth College in 1955.

A year later, he moved to MIT as a research fellow in the autumn of 1956. By the end of his years at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) he was already affectionately referred to as "Uncle John" by his students.^[16]

In 1962, he became a full professor at Stanford, where he remained until his retirement in 2000.

McCarthy championed mathematics such as lambda calculus and invented logics for achieving common sense in artificial intelligence.

Source: Wikipedia