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John McCarthy

Lifespan: birth:September 4th 1927 to death:october 24 2011

Achievements: Bachelor degree in mathematics. Made term artificial intelligence. Won the Benjamin franklin medal. Won the A.M. turning award. Won national medal of science

Contributions to computer science: conceived and developed time-sharing, invented the first programming language for symbolic computation LISP, and coined the term "Artificial Intelligence".

Sources

• John McCarthy - A.M. Turing Award laureate. (n.d.).https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/mccarthy_1118322.cfm#:~:text=John%20McCarthy%20was%20born%20September,by%20the%20Communist%20Party%20USA.
• McCarthy, J. (2012). Professor John McCarthy - Contributions and impact.http://jmc.stanford.edu/contributions/index.html#:~:text=John%20paved%20the%20way%20for,the%20term%20%22Artificial%20Intelligence%22.%22

Alan turing

lifespan: birth: June 23rd, 1912 to death: June 7th, 1954.

achievements: Awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1946. Considered the father of modern computer science.

Contributions: Alan Turing was famous for his work developing the first modern computers, decoding the encryption of German Enigma machines during the second world war, and detailing a procedure known as the Turing Test, forming the basis for artificial intelligence.

Sources

• Aron, J. (n.d.). Alan Turing. New Scientist.https://www.newscientist.com/people/alan-turing/#:~:text=Often%20considered%20the%20father%20of,the%20basis%20for%20artificial%20intelligence.
• Peralta, R. (2024, October 24). Alan Turing’s Everlasting contributions to Computing, AI and cryptography. NIST. https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/alan-turings-everlasting-contributions-computing-ai-and-cryptography

Grace hopper

lifespan: birth: December 9th, 1906 to death: January 1st 1992

Achievements: Invented the first computer compiler. Involved in the creation of UNIVAC, the first all-electronic digital computer.

Contributions: Pioneered the idea of automatic programming and explored new ways to use the computer to code. Normalized the term Debugging

Sources

• Biography of Grace Murray Hopper. (2017, August 9). Office of the President. https://president.yale.edu/biography-grace-murray-hopper#:~:text=While%20working%20on%20the%20UNIVAC,toward%20creating%20modern%20programming%20languages.
• Grace Hopper. (2021, May 10). Biography.https://www.biography.com/scientist/grace-hopper