EVENTS
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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 – 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 – Joseph Weizenbaum was born on January 8th, 1923
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - Joseph Weizenbaum was born on January 8th, 1923. Weizenbaum published the program ELIZA in 1966 which could mimic conversation with humans. Although Weizenbaum was considered a father of Artificial Intelligence, he...
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Alan Turing’s “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” was published
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” by Alan Turing was published in the Mind quarterly academic journal in October 1950. It was the first instance that the “Turing test” was introduced to the public. The paper takes the...
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...
Cornerstones in History of AI
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...