Top 3 Artificial Intelligence Innovations

Artificial Intelligence has always been one of the frontiers of computer science research, and it's always important to take a look at the roots of this exciting field. With the death of AI pioneer John McCarthy at the age of 84 being announced, programmers all over the world are publicly mourning over social networks. In additon to founding artificial intelligence programs at both MIT and Stanford, his best known contribution to artificial intelligence research was the Lisp programming language. Lisp stood for "List Processsing," and featured an incredibly elegant programming model. The main data structure in Lisp is, you guessed it, a list.