“Computing may someday be organized as a public utility just as the telephone system is a public utility,” Professor John McCarthy said at MIT’s centennial celebration in 1961.

Though many people tout cloud computing as the next big thing, the idea is almost as old as the computer itself. The concept was born in the 1960s from the ideas of pioneers like J.C.R. Licklider ...

John McCarthy, creator of the Lisp programming language and pioneer in utility computing—the forerunner of today’s cloud computing—died Sunday in Stanford, California. He was 84. McCarthy ...

John McCarthy, a computer science ... His early invention of computer time-sharing was the forerunner of networking, the Internet and, ultimately, cloud computing, his colleagues say.

Cloud computing is a popular buzz-phrase on the internet, with a Google search revealing 103 million occurrences of the term. ... An MIT professor, John McCarthy, ...

John McCarthy, 84, a computer ... Cloud computing is a method of storing data — which used to reside on a hard drive or in house servers — on a remote server accessible from the Internet or ...

John McCarthy, the man widely regarded as having coined the term Artificial Intelligence in 1955, ... he is credited as having introduced early forms of the concept of cloud computing, ...

These luminaries were [John McCarthy] ... which with a few tweaks here and there has been re-imagined in this day and age as the somewhat over-hyped “cloud computing”.) ...

John McCarthy didn't single-handedly invent what we now know widely as Artificial Intelligence, aka robot brains, but he did coin the term back in 1956 and is certainly one of the founders of the ...

John McCarthy - a computer scientist who helped design the foundation of today’s Internet-based computing and who is widely credited with coining the term for a frontier of research he helped ...