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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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