John started it.” McCarthy was a young assistant professor ... In 1966 McCarthy and his students programmed a computer to play chess with a computer in Russia in a series of highly publicized ...

But John McCarthy -- the man who coined the term and pioneered the field of AI research -- didn't see it that way. As far back as the mid-60s, chess was called the "Drosophila of artificial ...

A.I. is hard to miss, whether in cheeky chatbots or while playing chess. But how did artificial ... the founding event of A.I. Organized by John McCarthy, a computer scientist credited with ...