John McCarthy, known as “the father of artificial intelligence” for the seminal role he played in the development of the AI scientific field, was a professor of computer science at Stanford University from 1962 until his death in 2011. He wrote the original Lisp programming language, and he conceived of general-purpose time-sharing computer systems, which was a critical contribution to the invention of the Internet. Honors included the Turing Award for his advancements in artificial intelligence, the National Medal of Science, and the Kyoto Prize.
