On this day in 1927 American computer scientist and one of the “founding fathers” of artificial intelligence, John McCarthy was born. McCarthy was born in Boston and attended Caltech and Princeton University, where he received a Ph.D. in mathematics. He later developed the LISP programming language family while he was a professor at MIT, and coined the term “artificial intelligence”. He also popularized timesharing and influenced the design of the ALGOL programming language, among many other contributions, particularly in the field of AI.
