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. McCarthy came to Stanford in 1953 as an assistant professor. He moved to Dartmouth and then MIT from 1955 to 1962, when he returned to Stanford for good as a full professor of computer science. He retired in January 2001. In his career ... 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. 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. John McCarthy , the mind behind the term 'Artificial Intelligence,' sparked a revolution with his idea in 1955. He dreamed of machines that could reason like us, setting the stage for the AI era we are living in now.
