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Technology Visionaries the World Lost in 2011
By siliconindia
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Saturday, 31 December 2011, 19:36 IST
John McCarthy (1927-2011), Pioneer of A. I.
John McCarthy was the creator of programming Language Lisp, which is the base of all Artificial Intelligence applications. He coined the term ‘Artificial Intelligence’ in 1956 and also considered as the man behind idea of Cloud Computing. He died at the age of 84.
John Opel (1925-2011) IBM
John Opel started his journey as a salesman in IBM and eventually rose to the position of CEO. He was considered to be the man who made IBM a leader in the computer industry. He died at the age of 86.
