Artificial intelligence researcher, John McCarthy, has died. He was 84.
American scientist invented the LISP programming language.
He became the choice of programming language for the AI community, and is still used today.
Professor Mccarthy is also credited with coining the term "artificial intelligence" in 1955, when he detailed plans for the first Conference of Dartmouth. The first study AI sessions helped focus brainstorming.
Professor Mccarthy proposal for an event, put forward the idea that "every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle so accurately described the machine can do simulate it."
The Conference, which took place in the summer of 1956, and was attended by experts in language, touch input, training machines and other areas to discuss the possibility of information technologies.
Other AI experts describe it as a critical moment.
John McCarthy was fundamental in establishing the discipline of artificial intelligence, said Noel Sharkey, Professor of artificial intelligence at the University of Sheffield.
"His contribution to the theme and the Organization of the Conference as a Dartmouth still resounds today."
LISP
Professor Mccarthy developed LISP at the Massachusetts Institute of technology (MIT), which he described in detail as influential document in the year 1960.
Computer language used symbolic expressions, instead of a number and has been widely adopted by other researchers because it gave them the opportunity to be more creative.
"The invention of LISP was a turning point in AI, allowing the AI programs easy to read for the first time," said Professor David Bree, Turin-based Institute for scientific exchange.
"He remained AI language, especially in North America, over many years and is not a major competitor to Edinburgh Prolog."
Regret
In 1971, Professor Mccarthy was awarded the Turing Award from the Association for computing machinery in recognition of the importance of his field.
He later admitted that the lecture he gave in commemoration of this event was "inflated" when he tried to put forward new ideas on how to code commonsense knowledge in a computer program.
He went on to win the National Medal of science in 1991 year.
After retirement in the year 2000, Professor Mccarthy is Honorary Professor of computer science at Stanford University and maintain a Web site where he gathered his ideas on the future of robots, the sustainability of human progress and some of his science fiction writing.
The main contribution to the AI John McCarthy was his reason for knowledge representation and reasoning, which is the main focus of his research over the past 50 years, "said PROF. Sharkey
"He believes that this is the best approach to the development of intelligent machines and was disappointed by the way, the field seems to have become a high speed for very large databases."
Professor Sharkey added Professor Mccarthy wished he called discipline of computational intelligence, rather than AI. But he said he recognized his choice will likely attract more people to this issue.
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