Grady Booch: "artificial intelligence" predates the first print use of "software"
Grady_Booch · x · 2026-09-25
Grady Booch notes the term "artificial intelligence" was coined before "software" first appeared in print, linking the original 1955 Dartmouth proposal by McCarthy, Minsky, Rochester and Shannon — a two-month, ten-man study proposing machines use language, form abstractions, solve problems and improve themselves.
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