Introduction to AI - names

Question 1

John McCarthy

Answer 1

Turing Awardee, Dartmouth college
Inventor of Lisp

Question 2

Geoffrey Hinton

Answer 2

Turing Awardee
Google
Deep Learning

Question 3

Yann LeCun

Answer 3

Turing Awardee
Facebook
Deep Learning

Question 4

Yoshua Bengio

Answer 4

Turing Awardee
Deep Learning

Question 5

Joseph Faber

Answer 5

Euphonia

Question 6

René Descartes

Answer 6

Only humans have a soul, everything else is a machine

Question 7

Asimov

Answer 7

Three laws of robotics

Question 8

Jack Koff

Answer 8

Squee, robotic squirrel

Question 9

Konrad Zuse

Answer 9

first digital computer Z3

Question 10

McCulloch and Pitts

Answer 10

model artificial neurons

Question 11

Minsky and Edmonds

Answer 11

construct first neural network computer

Question 12

Frank Rosenblatt

Answer 12

invents the perceptron and adds the concept of weights

Question 13

Claude Shannon

Answer 13

invents algorithms for playing chess
Type-A (brute-force), Type-B (pruning uninteresting lines)

Question 14

Marvin Minsky

Answer 14

Turing Awardee, Dartmouth college

Question 15

Allen Newell

Answer 15

Turing Awardee, Dartmouth college

Question 16

Simon Herbert

Answer 16

Turing Awardee, Dartmouth college

Question 17

John R. Koza

Answer 17

popularized genetic programming

Question 18

John R. Koza

Answer 18

popularized genetic programming

Question 19

Von Neumann

Answer 19

Minimax principle

Question 20

Knuth & Moore

Answer 20

Alpha-Beta-search

Question 21

Colby

Answer 21

NLP

invented PARRY (chatbot which resembled a paranoid schizophrenic)

Question 22

Bobrow

Answer 22

NLP

invented STUDENT

Question 23

Winograd

Answer 23

NLP

invented SHRDLU