John McCarthy, The Father of AI, Liked To Boogey

John McCarthy at Stanford's IBM 7080, ca. 1967

While doing research for the AI chapter in my book, I came across this endearing tidbit about Professor John McCarthy who established the first AI labs in the country; Project MAC at MIT in 1959 with Marvin Minsky that eventually became CSAIL, and the AI Lab at Stanford in 1962 when he moved there from Bosto…