George Boole: Cork lecturer hailed as father of computing and artificial intelligence

Portrait of George Boole (Illustrated London News, 21 Jan. 1865)
Whenever we switch on our devices, we’re bombarded with AI: 
YuMi conducting Andrea Bocceli at Teatro Verdi, Pisa, 12 Sept. 2024. The robot had been trained in just two days  Making a significant — though largely unrecognised — contribution to all these initiatives was Cork academic George Boole.
Born in the small English cathedral town of Lincoln in 1815, George Boole came from a humble family: his father was a […]
George Boole: Cork lecturer hailed as father of computing and artificial intelligence