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This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Edward Feigenbaum, Bruce G. Buchanan, Joshua Lederberg, and Carl Djerassi began work on Dendral
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - Edward Feigenbaum, Bruce G. Buchanan, Joshua Lederberg, and Carl Djerassi began work on Dendral in 1965. This was an AI project that later also became the first expert system. Edward Feigenbaum is an American computer...
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Judea Pearl receives the ACM Turing Award 2011
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - Judea Pearl receives the ACM Turing Award 2011 on 16 June, 2012. He was chosen by ACM for his contributions to the field of Artificial Intelligence, most notably probabilistic and causal reasoning. The Turing Award is one...
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert published Perceptrons
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert published Perceptrons in 1969. The book explored the concept of the “perceptron”, but also highlighted its limitations. It was also pessimistic in its predictions for AI, and was thought to...
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Frank Rosenblatt developed perceptrons in 1957
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - Frank Rosenblatt developed perceptrons 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 A, played a vital role in this process in developing the Bombe. Alan Turing was a...
Cornerstones in History of AI
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 Dartmouth Conference ended on 17th August 1956
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - the Dartmouth Conference ended on 17th August 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 9th August, 1927
This week at the History of AI - Marvin Minsky was born on 9th August, 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...