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John McCarthy, creator of LISPA family of programming languages designed to facilitate artificial intelligenceAn attempt to make computers work/talk/act like people. Traditional definitions included a simple test that if a person dealing with a computer, for example via a keyboard and monitor, could not tell that there was a computer on the other end, then it was artificial intelligence. Modern definitions are more strict.. The name is short for “LISt Processing”. The language was created in 1958., and father of modern artificial intelligenceAn attempt to make computers work/talk/act like people. … Continue reading →