EVENTS
Chronicles
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 – 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...
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Marvin Minsky publishes “The Society of Mind”
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 – John McCarthy proposed the ‘advice taker’ in his paper “Programs with Common Sense”
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 – MIT receives a $2.2 million grant in June 1963 from DARPA
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - MIT receives a $2.2 million grant in June 1963 from DARPA, which was used to fund project MAC. This project included the AI Group of Marvin Minsky and John McCarthy. DARPA is the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a...
Cornerstones in History of AI
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the World Leadership Alliance Club de Madrid organized the Online Roundtable “A New Social Contract in the Age of AI”
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - the World Leadership Alliance Club de Madrid organized the Online Roundtable “A New Social Contract in the Age of AI” on May 12, 2020. The Roundtable was organized by the WLA-CdM in conjunction with Boston Global Forum....
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Edward Feigenbaum formally introduces expert systems
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 Book of Why by Judea Pearl was published in 2018
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...