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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]
Sep 4, 2016 · In 1956, John organized the mythic Dartmouth conference where, in his talk, he first coined the term “artificial intelligence”, defined as the science and engineering of making intelligent machines.
Dec 1, 2007 · This article, written in honor of McCarthy's 80th birthday, presents a brief biography, an overview of the major themes of his research, and a discussion of several of his major papers. Fifty years ago, John McCarthy embarked on a bold and unique plan to achieve human-level intelligence in computers.
Aug 31, 2024 · John McCarthy (born September 4, 1927, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.—died October 24, 2011, Stanford, California) was an American mathematician and computer scientist who was a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence (AI); his main research in the field involved the formalization of commonsense knowledge.
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Jan 1, 2011 · In this introductory article, we survey some of McCarthy's major contributions to the field of knowledge representation and reasoning, and situate the papers in this special issue in the context of McCarthy's previous work.
- Leora Morgenstern, Sheila A. McIlraith
- 2011
Oct 25, 2011 · He was 84. In 1966, John McCarthy hosted a series of four simultaneous computer chess matches carried out via telegraph against rivals in Russia. (Image credit: Chuck Painter) McCarthy was a giant in the field of computer science and a seminal figure in the field of artificial intelligence.
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Sep 4, 2020 · To implement circumscription in its initial formulation, McCarthy augmented first-order logic to allow the minimization of the extension of some predicates, where the extension of a predicate is the set of tuples of values the predicate is true on.
