RD Sir & Team
24 Dec

FATHERS OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES (WITH PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES)

Technology / ConceptFather / PioneerYearProgramming Language(s) Used / AssociatedKey Exam-Relevant Points
Artificial Intelligence (AI)John McCarthy1956LISPCoined term AI; LISP became primary AI language
Machine LearningArthur Samuel1959IBM Assembly, FortranDeveloped self-learning checkers program
Deep LearningGeoffrey Hinton1980sPython, C++, MATLABBackpropagation, neural networks; Nobel Prize 2024
Neural NetworksFrank Rosenblatt1957Custom Hardware, AssemblyPerceptron model
Blockchain TechnologySatoshi Nakamoto2008C++Bitcoin blockchain coded in C++
BitcoinSatoshi Nakamoto2009C++First cryptocurrency
Smart ContractsVitalik Buterin2015SolidityEthereum blockchain
Deepfake TechnologyIan Goodfellow2014PythonInvented GANs
Robotics (Industrial)Joseph Engelberger1961C, C++, PLC languagesFirst industrial robot “Unimate”
Term ‘Robot’Karel Čapek1920Coined literary term
Internet (TCP/IP)Vinton Cerf1970sCFather of Internet
World Wide Web (WWW)Tim Berners-Lee1989HTML, HTTP, JavaScriptInvented WWW
Cloud Computing (Concept)J.C.R. Licklider1960sNetworking idea
Quantum ComputingRichard Feynman1982Q#, Python (Qiskit)Quantum computation theory
Internet of Things (IoT)Kevin Ashton1999C, Python, JavaTerm IoT coined
Metaverse (Term)Neal Stephenson1992Term coined in novel
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