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John McCarthy — The Father of Artificial Intelligence

John McCarthy (1927–2011) was an American computer scientist widely known as the Father of Artificial Intelligence.

In 1956, he coined the term “Artificial Intelligence” while organizing the famous Dartmouth Conference, the event that officially launched AI as a scientific field.

McCarthy also:

👉 Invented the LISP programming language, one of the earliest and most influential AI languages

👉 Introduced key concepts like time-sharing systems in computing

👉 Laid the foundation for machine reasoning and symbolic AI