EVENTS
Chronicles
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Marvin Minsky and Dean Edmonds built SNARC
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - Marvin Minsky and Dean Edmonds built SNARC, the first artificial neural network, in 1951. SNARC stands for the Stochastic Neural Analog Reinforcement Calculator. It is a neural net machine, which itself is a randomly...
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the Dartmouth Conference ended on August 17th, 1956
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - the Dartmouth Conference ended on August 17th, 1956. This gathering lasted the entire summer at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, having started on 16th June. The Dartmouth Conference was originally dreamt up by...
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Marvin Minsky publishes “The Society of Mind”
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 – IBM “Watson” defeats 2 Jeopardy! champions
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - IBM “Watson” machine defeats 2 human Jeopardy! champions. The machine went on the show on February 16th, 2011 and faced off against Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, previous winners of the famous game-show. The show was taped...
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – The Stanford Heuristic Programming Project introduced expert systems
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - Edward Feigenbaum formally introduces expert systems in 1965. He was a part of the Stanford Heuristic Programming Project, which contained other notable AI pioneers. Edward Feigenbaum is an American computer scientist...
Cornerstones in History of AI
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Marvin Minsky was quoted in Life magazine, “In three to eight years we will have a machine with the general intelligence of an average human being”
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - in 1970 Marvin Minsky was quoted in Life magazine, “In three to eight years we will have a machine with the general intelligence of an average human being.” Marvin Minsky was interviewed by Life magazine in 1970 by...
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Arthur Samuel popularises the term “machine learning”
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - Arthur Samuel popularises the term “machine learning” in 1959 in his article “Some Studies in Machine Learning Using the Game of Checkers”. Arthur L. Samuel was an American computer scientist. He was a pioneer in the field...
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the end of the first AI Winter
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - the end of the first AI Winter in 1980. This was due to the adoption of “expert systems” into corporations in the 90s and Japan’s Fifth Generation Computer project. Expert systems are computer systems that can emulate man’s...