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Chronicles
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 at the History of AI – Marvin Minsky was born on August 9th, 1927
This week at the History of AI - Marvin Minsky was born on August 9th, 1927. Minsky was one of the most influential AI scientists. Marvin Minksy was an important pioneer in the field of AI. He penned the research proposal for the Dartmouth Conference, which coined the...
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Waseda University builds WABOT-2
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - Waseda University built WABOT-2 in 1984. A follow up to the WABOT-1 they built in 1973, this robot was also anthropomorphic, but improvements were made. The WABOT-2 was a follow-up to the WABOT-1 project. This iteration can...
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Waseda University builds WABOT-1
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - Waseda University built WABOT-1 in 1973. It was the first full-scale anthropomorphic robot, with a climb-control system, a vision system, and a conversation system. The WABOT-1 was the first of its kind. It was able to...
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...
Cornerstones in History of AI
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...