Grady Booch: 'AI' was coined almost a decade before 'software engineering'
Grady_Booch · x · 2026-09-19
Software engineering pioneer and IBM researcher Grady Booch notes with amusement and humility that the term "artificial intelligence" was coined almost a decade before "software engineering" — meaning the AI concept predates the discipline that named itself after engineering.
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