EVENTS
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This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the Strategic Computing Initiative was founded
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - DARPA founded the Strategic Computing Initiative to fund research of advanced computer hardware and artificial intelligence in 1983. DARPA stands for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a research and development...
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence was proposed
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence was proposed. The proposal was submitted on September 2, 1955, but written on August 31, 1955. It was the collaboration of John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky,...
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - IBM “Deep Blue” machine defeats Garry Kasparov, the then-reigning World Chess Champion, at chess, in a highly-publicised match on 11 May, 1997. This date was the conclusion of 2 matches, one starting the year before, 1996....
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Edward Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman published “Computers and Thought”
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - Edward Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman published Computers and Thought, a book composed of articles on Artificial Intelligence, the first of its kind, in 1963. Feigenbaum and Feldman edited and wrote some of the articles but...
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the Logic Theorist was developed by Herbert Simon and Allen Newell
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - Herbert Simon and Allen Newell developed Logic Theorist in December 1955. Logic Theorist is a computer program that is considered to be the first AI program. The program was designed to perform automated reasoning, the...
Cornerstones in History of AI
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Unimate became 1st first industrial robot for labor
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - Unimate, an industrial robot developed in the 50s, becomes the first to work in New Jersey in 1961. Unimate was invented by George Davol, who filed the patent in 1954. Davol met Joseph Engelberger in 1956, and the two...
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Claude Shannon was born on 30 April, 1916
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - Claude Shannon was born on 30 April, 1916. He is recognized as the father of Information Technology. Shannon also participated and was a part of the inception of the Dartmouth Conference. Claude Shannon was an American...
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - IBM “Deep Blue” machine defeats Garry Kasparov, the then-reigning World Chess Champion, at chess, in a highly-publicised match on 11 May, 1997. This date was the conclusion of 2 matches, one starting the year before, 1996....