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This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Unimate became 1st first labor industrial robot
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 – “Learning Multiple Layers of Representation” by Geoffrey Hinton was published
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - “Learning Multiple Layers of Representation” by Geoffrey Hinton was published in October 2008. The paper proposed new approaches to deep learning. In place of backpropagation, another concept Hinton introduced prior, Hinton...
This week at the History of AI – Marvin Minsky was born on August 9th, 1927
This week at the History of AI - Marvin Minsky was born on August 9th, 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...
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Edward Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman published “Computers and Thought”
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - Edward Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman published Computers and Thought, a book composed of articles on Artificial Intelligence, the first of its kind, in 1963. Feigenbaum and Feldman edited and wrote some of the articles but...
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...
Cornerstones in History of AI
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Marvin Minsky and Dean Edmonds built SNARC
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - Marvin Minsky and Dean Edmonds built SNARC, the first artificial neural network, in 1951. SNARC stands for the Stochastic Neural Analog Reinforcement Calculator. It is a neural net machine, which itself is a randomly...
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the Dartmouth Conference ended on August 17th, 1956
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - the Dartmouth Conference ended on August 17th, 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 August 9th, 1927
This week at the History of AI - Marvin Minsky was born on August 9th, 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...