American computer scientist who coined the term 'artificial intelligence' (1955), organized the Dartmouth Workshop (1956) that launched AI as a research field, invented the Lisp programming language (1958), and developed the concept of time-sharing computing.
Named and launched artificial intelligence as a research discipline — the 1956 Dartmouth Workshop (which McCarthy organized) is the founding moment of AI; his 1955 proposal defined the field's scope and ambition and Lisp became the dominant AI programming language for decades.
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