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History of artificial intelligence
Strategic Computing InitiativeIn 1983, the United States government launched a massive research effort called the Strategic Computing Initiative. This program aimed to fund advanced…
Lighthill reportThe Science Research Council issued a directive in 1972 asking James Lighthill to conduct a personal review of artificial intelligence.
Logic TheoristIn 1954, a RAND scientist named Allen Newell sat in a room while Oliver Selfridge gave a presentation on pattern matching.
SHRDLUTerry Winograd began work on SHRDLU at MIT between 1968 and 1970. He wrote the program using Lisp and Micro Planner languages.
Computing Machinery and IntelligenceAlan Turing published Computing Machinery and Intelligence in the journal Mind during 1950. This paper introduced his concept of what is now known as the…
Darwin among the MachinesOn the 13th of June 1863, The Press newspaper in Christchurch published a letter signed Cellarius. Samuel Butler wrote this piece to argue that machines were…
AI boomIn 1950, Alan Turing proposed the idea of Thinking Machines. These were computers that would be able to reason at the same level as humans.
History of artificial intelligenceIn 1956, a group of scientists gathered at Dartmouth College to launch artificial intelligence as a formal discipline. Yet the dream of creating thinking…
AI winterIn 1984, the annual meeting of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence became a stage for a public debate that would define a generation of…
Dartmouth workshopJohn McCarthy stood in a mathematics department office at Dartmouth College during the early 1950s. He watched various names for thinking machines swirl…
Turing testAlan Turing published his paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence in 1950 while working at the University of Manchester.