AIWS History of AI

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,...

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...

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...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Frank Rosenblatt developed the Perceptron

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Frank Rosenblatt developed the Perceptron in 1957. It is a form of neural network that allowed pattern-recognition. Frank Rosenblatt was an American psychologist. Born in 1928, Rosenblatt would go on...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Bletchley Park cryptologists broke the German Enigma code

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Bletchley Park cryptologists broke the German Enigma code on 9th July, 1941. Alan Turing, considered the founder of computer science and AI, played a vital role in this process in developing the Bombe. Alan...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – The Democratic Alliance on Digital Governance Conference was hosted on July 1st, 2020

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – The Democratic Alliance on Digital Governance Conference was hosted on July 1st, 2020. The subheading of this event was “Protecting and Strengthening Democracy in the Aftermath of COVID-19.” This...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – The UN Charter Day Roundtable: A Social Contract in the Age of AI and Intellectual Society was hosted in 2020

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – The UN Charter Day Roundtable: A Social Contract in the Age of AI and Intellectual Society was hosted on June 26, 2020. The roundtable was an event of the UN to discuss the Social Contract 2020 (A New...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the Dartmouth Conference began on 18 June 1956

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the Dartmouth Conference began on 18 June 1956. This gathering would run through the entire summer at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The Dartmouth Conference was originally dreamt up by...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Edward Feigenbaum, Bruce G. Buchanan, Joshua Lederberg, and Carl Djerassi began work on Dendral

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Edward Feigenbaum, Bruce G. Buchanan, Joshua Lederberg, and Carl Djerassi began work on Dendral in 1965. This was an AI project that later also became the first expert system. Edward Feigenbaum is an...