Dr. McCarthy at Stanford’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
(Chuck Painter/Stanford News Service/file 1974)
John McCarthy; pioneered interactive computing, AI
Dr. McCarthy at Stanford’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
(Chuck Painter/Stanford News Service/file 1974)
John McCarthy - a computer scientist who helped design the foundation of today’s Internet-based computing and who is widely credited with coining the term for a frontier of research he helped pioneer, artificial intelligence, or AI - died at 84 Monday at his home in Stanford, Calif.
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