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This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – John McCarthy proposed the ‘advice taker’ in 1959
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – John McCarthy proposed the “advice taker” in his paper “Programs with Common Sense.” This hypothetical program was the first to use logic to represent information. The paper was published in 1959. John McCarthy was an...
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Frank Rosenblatt developed the Perceptron
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - Frank Rosenblatt developed the Perceptron in 1957. It is a form of neural network that allowed pattern-recognition. Frank Rosenblatt was an American psychologist. Born in 1928, Rosenblatt would go on to study at Cornell...
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the British government launches the Alvey Programme
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - the Alvey Programme was launched by the British government in 1983. It is a project developed in response to Japan’s own Fifth Generation Computer project. There was no specific focus or directive, but rather the program...
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 – 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...
Cornerstones in History of AI
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 Book of Why by Judea Pearl was published
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - The Book of Why by Judea Pearl was published on 15 May, 2018. The book discusses causality and Bayesian probability, as well as their relations to fields such as AI and statistics. Judea Pearl is a renowned Israeli-American...
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – “Computers and Thought” was published by Edward Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - in 1963 Edward Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman published Computers and Thought, a book composed of articles on Artificial Intelligence, the first of its kind. Feigenbaum and Feldman edited and wrote some of the articles but...