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Computer design pioneer McCarthy dies

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NEW YORK, USA: John McCarthy, a computer scientist who helped design Internet-based computing and who is credited with coining the term Artificial Intelligence, died on Monday at his home in Stanford, Calif, according to media reports. He was 84.

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The cause was complications of heart disease, his daughter Sarah McCarthy said.

A trained mathematician, Dr. McCarthy was responsible for seminal advances in the field and was often called the Father of computer time-sharing, a major development of the 1960s that enabled many people and organizations to draw simultaneously from a single computer source, like a mainframe

By lowering costs, it allowed more people to use computers and laid the groundwork for the interactive computing of today.

"In the early 1970s, he presented a paper in France on buying and selling computer, what is now called electronic commerce,” said Whitfield Diffie, an Internet security expert who worked as a researcher for Dr. McCarthy at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.



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