Open AccessMcCarthy as Scientist and Engineer, with Personal Recollections
Author(s) -
Feigenbaum Edward
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
ai magazine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.597
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 2371-9621
pISSN - 0738-4602
DOI - 10.1609/aimag.v33i4.2442
Subject(s) - coining (mint) , engineering , art history , library science , history , operations research , computer science , archaeology
John McCarthy, professor emeritus of computer science at Stanford University, died on October 24, 2011. McCarthy, a past president of AAAI and an AAAI Fellow, helped design the foundation of today's internet‐based computing and is widely credited with coining the term , artificial intelligence. This remembrance by Edward Feigenbaum, also a past president of AAAI and a professor emeritus of computer science at Stanford University, was delivered at the celebration of John McCarthy's accomplishments, held at Stanford on 25 March 2012 . – AI Magazine