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Google Home: Google released Google Home in 2016. It uses
AI to act as a personal assistant helping the user remember
tasks, create appointments, and search information by voice.

Pioneers in the Field of AI

Let us have a look at some of these pioneers in the field of artificial intelligence whose

contribution proved to be a milestone for the future generation.
Alan Turing

Alan Turing was a brilliant British Mathematician, Biologist and
Computer Scientist. His Turing Machine was one of the first,
basic computers created.

He is known as the Father of Theoretical Computer Science and
also as the Father of Artificial Intelligence due to his creation
of the Turing Test.

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.

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 semantic network.

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