R.I.P. John McCarthy, father of AI, inventor of Lisp


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John McCarthy has died at age 84. He was a legendary computer scientist
who was a pioneer in the field of AI, coining the term 'Artificial
Intelligence'. He also invented the Lisp programming language.

::pours a 40oz onto the ground

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He once told me my cat wasn't conscious. So now I think my cat is a machine of some kind.


So(sorry(to hear)this).


Not to mention Dennis Ritchie. The guy who invented C (THE programming language) and UNIX.

The world of computers lost two of their greatest in October.

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