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Alan Turing
Alan Turing was a brilliant British Mathematician, Biologist and Computer
Scientist. His Turing Machine was one of the first, basic computers created. In
1950, Alan Turing published a ground breaking seminal paper “Computing
Machinery and Intelligence” on the topic of artificial intelligence. It
introduced the concept of what is now known as Turing Test.
The test is still a matter of standards today. It establishes that if a computer
can have a simple dialogue with a person via a printer, then that itself is a
proof that the machine is “thinking”. It was for this work that led him to be
regarded as the Father of Theoretical Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence.
Brainy Fact
In 2014, a chatbot posing as a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy, earned the title of the first
machine to pass the Turing Test. The bot, dubbed Eugene Goostman, convinced a third
of the judges he spoke to that he was a human.
John McCarthy
John McCarthy was an American Computer Scientist and Cognitive
Scientist. He is known as the “Father of Artificial Intelligence”.
He developed the LISP (an acronym for List Processing) programming
language and soon it became the choice of programming language. In
1971 he received the Turing Award. He was a pioneer in Mathematical
Logic for Artificial Intelligence.
Ross Quillian
Ross Quillian was a leading Scientist and Researcher in the field of electronics
and communications during 1960. His work “SYNTHEX” is widely accredited
in the field of AI. In his project, Quillian developed the first semantic web. It
is the map of words and concepts that a computer could use to understand
relations. For example, if you think of Pizza, your brain understands there are
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