This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - The Democratic Alliance on Digital Governance Conference was hosted on July 1st, 2020. The subheading of this event was “Protecting and Strengthening Democracy in the Aftermath of COVID-19”. This conference was a...

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 - the Dartmouth Conference began on 18 June 1956. This gathering would run through the entire summer at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The Dartmouth Conference was originally dreamt up by John McCarthy, Marvin...

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 - 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. 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...