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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 – “The Society of Mind” was published by Marvin Minsky
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - Marvin Minsky publishes The Society of Mind in 1987. This book is a theoretical description of the mind as a collection of cooperating agents. Marvin Minsky was an American cognitive and computer scientist. He penned the...
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Marvin Minsky and John McCarthy founded the MIT AI Lab
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - the MIT AI Lab was founded by John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky in 1959. This marked the beginning of coordinated AI research at MIT. The lab focused on researching and developing AI. The Lab went through several iterations...
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Herbert Simon wrote, “machines will be capable, within twenty years, of doing any work a man can do”
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - H. A. Simon was quoted with a prediction, “machines will be capable, within twenty years, of doing any work a man can do” in the 1960s. He wrote this in his “The New Science of Management Decision” Herbert Simon was an...
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Marvin Minsky was quoted saying, “Within a generation … the problem of creating ‘artificial intelligence’ will substantially be solved.”
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - in 1967 Marvin Minsky was quoted saying, “Within a generation ... the problem of creating 'artificial intelligence' will substantially be solved.” Similar to H. A. Simon’s writings from the same era, Minsky’s prediction was...
Cornerstones in History of AI
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...
Edward Feigenbaum, Kumagai Professor of Computer Science, joins the History of AI Board
Edward Feigenbaum is the Kumagai Professor of Computer Science and Co-Scientific Director, Knowledge Systems Laboratory at Stanford University. He made several contributions to the development of AI, becoming a co-recipient of the Turing Award in 1994. He is...
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...