John McCarthy
2 milestones · 1956–1958
Explore John McCarthy's contributions to AI across 2 milestones from 1956 to 1958, with the strongest concentration in infrastructure & compute.
Chronology
Research
The Dartmouth Conference
A two-month workshop at Dartmouth College where the term 'Artificial Intelligence' was officially coined. The proposal stated: 'Every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it.' This gathering brought together the founders of the field.
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Infrastructure
LISP Programming Language
John McCarthy created LISP (LISt Processing), a programming language designed specifically for AI research. Its features — recursion, dynamic typing, garbage collection, and homoiconicity — were decades ahead of their time.
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