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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 – Bletchley Park cryptologists broke the German Enigma code
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - Bletchley Park cryptologists broke the German Enigma code on 9th July, 1941. Alan Turing, considered the founder of computer science and AI, played a vital role in this process in developing the Bombe. Alan Turing was a...
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...
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – expert systems were introduced by Edward Feigenbaum
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...
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – The market for specialised AI hardware collapsed in 1987
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - the sudden collapse of the market for specialised AI hardware in 1987. This is due to the fact that computers from Apple and IBM became more powerful than Lisp machines and other expert systems. In the 80s, specialised AI...
Cornerstones in History of AI
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – “The Society of Mind” by Marvin Minsky was published
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 – 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...