The father of speech recognition programming language dies

John McCarthy, the father of the field of artificial intelligence and speech recognition programming language, passed away at the age of 84, Stanford University, where Professor worked on his departure on October 24.

John McCarthy has been credited with laying the foundations for artificial intelligence technology since 1955. He said: 'Every aspect of learning or any smart feature can be accurately simulated by computers'.

John McCarthy

McCarthy is the founder of the Intelligent Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University.

In 1958, MacCarthy invented the Lisp programming language , paving the way for the development of voice recognition technology, including Siri , the latest iPhone application.

MacCarthy is also the developer of the concept of Time Division that allows multiple users to access a computer. This is considered the foundation of today's cloud computing technology.

McCarthy studied mathematics at the California Institute of Technology. He received his doctorate in mathematics in 1951 and became Professor at Princeton University until 1953. He then worked at MIT, Dartmouth University and Stanford University.

'He is a straightforward, kind and generous person especially for students. He's always focused on the future, always inventing , 'said Ed Feigenbaum, a colleague of McCarthy at Stanford University.

Throughout his career, McCarthy has won a number of awards such as: The AMTuring Prize in 1971, the highest award in computer science; Kyoto Prize in 1988 and received the National Science Medal in 1990.