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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.
Edward Feigenbaum
Edward Feigenbaum is often called the, “Father of Expert Systems”.
He was the joint winner of 1994 ACM Turing Award.
Marvin Minsky
Marvin Minsky was an American Cognitive and Computer Scientist.
He co-authored the book 'Perceptons' (with Seymour Papert) as his
ground breaking work on Artificial Neural Networks.
IBM
IBM company stood as the next pioneer in the field of
Artificial Intelligence as it hit a major milestone with its
development and creation of Deep Blue. On February 10,
1997, it played against world renowned chess master Garry
Kasparov. For the first time AI won against a human.
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