Father of artificial intelligence: Learn about the life

Learn about the life, work, and influence of John McCarthy, the American computer scientist who coined the term "artificial intelligence" and developed the LISP programming language. Explore his collaborations, controversies, awards, and predictions in the field of AI. John McCarthy was an unwavering optimist regarding the potential of artificial intelligence to reach and even surpass human-level intelligence. He believed that the human mind, in principle, could be emulated by a sufficiently advanced machine. John McCarthy, American mathematician and computer scientist who was a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence (AI); his research involved the formalization of commonsense knowledge. John McCarthy – Father of Artificial Intelligence V Rajaraman is at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Several generations of scientists and engineers in India have learnt computer science using his lucidly written textbooks on programming and computer fundamentals. His current research interests are parallel computing and history of computing.