The terminology 'Artificial Intelligence' was first coined by:

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Correct — D, John McCarthy. The phrase 'artificial intelligence' was introduced by McCarthy in the proposal dated 31 August 1955 for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, which he wrote with Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester and Claude Shannon. The workshop itself was held in the summer of 1956 at Dartmouth College and is treated as the founding event of AI as a field. McCarthy went on to create the Lisp programming language (1958) and is widely called the 'father of Artificial Intelligence'.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Not a figure in the history of AI. The 'John' you are meant to recall is John McCarthy — the first name is the bait, the surname is what decides the answer.  (b) No computer scientist of this name is associated with coining the term. The founding names of AI to remember are McCarthy, Minsky, Rochester and Shannon.  (c) A deliberate near-miss. The Samuel in computing history is Arthur Samuel, who coined the term 'machine learning' in 1959 and wrote the famous checkers-playing program — not 'Henry', and not the coiner of 'artificial intelligence'.

Concept: AI became a named research field at the 1956 Dartmouth workshop, whose 1955 proposal carried the phrase 'artificial intelligence' for the first time. The proposal's conjecture — that every aspect of learning or intelligence can be described precisely enough for a machine to simulate it — still defines the field's ambition. Work that came before it (Turing's 1950 'Computing Machinery and Intelligence', with the imitation game now called the Turing Test) was foundational but predates the label itself.

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