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...

The Final Report of Policy Lab Fundamental Rights in AI; Digital Societies: Towards An International Accord

In this context, CdM in partnership with BGF organized a Policy Lab on Fundamental Rights in AI & Digital Societies: Towards an International Accord in September 2021. Multistakeholder discussions aimed to build consensus around a rights-based...

AIWS.net is the core of Young Leaders of GADG

AIWS.net is the core of Young Leaders of the Global Alliance for Digital Governance (YLGADG). YLGADG is sponsored by the World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid, the United Nations Centennial Initiative, the Boston Global Forum, the Michael Dukakis Institute...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Marvin Minsky and John McCarthy founded the MIT AI Lab

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the MIT AI Lab was founded by John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky in 1959. This marked the beginning of coordinated AI research at MIT. The lab focused on researching and developing AI. The Lab went through...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the Logic Theorist was developed by Herbert Simon and Allen Newell

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Herbert Simon and Allen Newell developed Logic Theorist in December 1955. Logic Theorist is a computer program that is considered to be the first AI program. The program was designed to perform automated...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – expert systems were introduced by Edward Feigenbaum

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...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – The market for specialised AI hardware collapsed in 1987

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the sudden collapse of the market for specialised AI hardware in 1987. This is due to the fact that computers from Apple and IBM became more powerful than Lisp machines and other expert systems. In the...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Yoshua Bengio, Geofrrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun receive the Turing Award 2018

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the ACM named Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun recipients of the Turing Award in 2018 for breakthroughs that made deep neural networks critical in computing. The Turing Award is one of the...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Alan Turing’s “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” was published

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” by Alan Turing was published in the Mind quarterly academic journal in October 1950. It was the first instance that the “Turing test” was introduced to the...