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This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – James Robert Slagle develops SAINT
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - computer scientist James Robert Slagle developed SAINT in 1961. SAINT stands for Symbolic Automatic INTegrator. It was a heuristic program that could solve symbolic integration problems in freshman calculus. The machine was...
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...
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 – Claude Shannon was born on 30 April, 1916
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - Claude Shannon was born on 30 April, 1916. He is recognized as the father of Information Technology. Shannon also participated and was a part of the inception of the Dartmouth Conference. Claude Shannon was an American...
Cornerstones in History of AI
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...
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 – 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...