1955

John McCarthy

The term “artificial intelligence”

Lead author of the 1955 Dartmouth proposal that introduced the term “artificial intelligence”. ACM Turing Award 1971.

Filed under

• Theory & foundations
• Symbolic AI & agents

Key work

A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence ↗ (opens in new tab)

with Minsky, Rochester and Shannon, 1955

Recognition

ACM A.M. Turing Award 1971 ↗ (opens in new tab)

Sources

• A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence ↗ (opens in new tab)
• ACM A.M. Turing Award 1971 ↗ (opens in new tab)
• John McCarthy on Wikipedia ↗ (opens in new tab)