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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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John McCarthy (1927-2011) was a giant in the field of artificial intelligence. Credited with coining the term “artificial intelligence,” he subsequently went on to define the discipline for more than five decades from his professorship at Stanford.
Oct 25, 2011 · John McCarthy, a professor emeritus of computer science at Stanford, the man who coined the term "artificial intelligence" and subsequently went on to define the field for more than five decades, died suddenly at his home in Stanford in the early morning Monday, Oct. 24. He was 84.
- Early Life and Education
- Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
- Arrival at Mit
- Ai Chess Applications
- Evolution of Ai
- Mit Ai Lab
- Return to Stanford
- Relationship Between Ai and Robotics
- Collaborations and Interactions
- Advice to Young People
Q: Tell us where you were born and grew up and your early education. John McCarthy: Okay, go ask them. Boston. Q: And where did you start your education? John McCarthy: In Boston public schools. Q: Where did you do your undergraduate work? John McCarthy: Caltech. Q: And what did you study there? John McCarthy: Mathematics.
Q: When did you start to become interested in artificial intelligence? John McCarthy: In the fall of 1948 there was a conference at Caltech called Hixon, H-I-X-O-N, Symposium on Cerebral Mechanisms and Behavior and they compared the brain and the computer and it gave me the idea of using computers for – to behave intelligently and many years later ...
Q: When did you arrive at MIT? John McCarthy: What? Q: When did you start at MIT? John McCarthy: Excuse me? Q: When did you go to MIT? John McCarthy: When I got my Ph.D. I stayed two years at Princeton as an instructor then I went to Stanford and after a year, Stanford decided they had three acting assistant professors and they keep two of them and...
Q: Now when did you start actually programming computers with what you considered to be AI? John McCarthy: Well, the first thing I did was start to write a chess program which I wrote in FORTRAN and I wrote the easy part, which were the legal move routines and so forth and then I was stuck on the main strategy and dithered about that, but I turned ...
Q: When did you come to understand that AI would become a field of its own? John McCarthy: Well, okay in one sense you can say on particular date which was August 31, 1955. No, maybe earlier, maybe 1952, I wrote this call for these papers on the automatous studies and when the papers came in, I was disappointed, too many of them were about automata...
Q: Tell me about the AI lab at MIT. John McCarthy: Well, Minsky and I started that. Now, here’s my version, which may not be entirely correct. That is that I encountered Minsky in the corridor and said, “We really ought to have an artificial intelligence laboratory.” And he said, “That’s a good idea. Let’s do that.” And then along came Jerry Wiesne...
John McCarthy: In the spring of 1962, by then MIT had promoted me to – oh, I hadn’t finished confessed to double crossing Dartmouth. John Kemeny, who had hired me at Dartmouth – sorry, was Dartmouth’s representative on this thing, and I got a Sloan Foundation Fellowship, which I spent at MIT, that is for one year. And MIT was willing to hire me as ...
Q: What would you say was the relationship between artificial intelligence and robotics, particularly at Stanford? John McCarthy: Well, as I say, my motivation for starting the robotics was having this slogan about concepts, which is, after all, an AI idea. But I never even met Brunner, so I didn't get into an argument with him. I should have, and ...
Q: Did you have much interaction with the people at SRI, like Nils Nilsson, and their robotic work? John McCarthy: I guess the basic answer is no, and my hesitation is that I'm trying to figure out why. Are you going to interview Nils Nilsson? Q: Yeah, next week. John McCarthy: Now, Engelbart said something in which he contrasted his motivations an...
Q: If there were young people interested in pursuing careers in artificial intelligence or robotics, what would you recommend to them to study to pursue a career? What kind of advice would you give them? John McCarthy: It depends on how good they are. If they're as self-confident as I was, then I would recommend to them don't pay any attention to a...
Oct 25, 2011 · John McCarthy, a professor emeritus of computer science at Stanford, the man who coined the term “artificial intelligence” and subsequently went on to define the field for more than five decades, died suddenly at his home in Stanford in the early morning Monday, Oct. 24. He was 84.
Oct 24, 2011 · John was a legendary computer scientist at Stanford University who developed time-sharing, invented LISP, and founded the field of Artificial Intelligence. In March 2011 John launched Project JMC with the objective to make his work more approachable and accessible.
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The Department of Computer Science is saddened to report that Emeritus Professor John McCarthy died on October 24, 2011 at age 84. John was one of the founders of artificial intelligence (AI), coining that name in 1955.
