AIWS History of AI

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Arthur Samuel popularises the term “machine learning”

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Arthur Samuel popularises the term “machine learning” in 1959 in his article “Some Studies in Machine Learning Using the Game of Checkers”. Arthur L. Samuel was an American computer scientist....

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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...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – “Computers and Thought” was published by Edward Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – in 1963 Edward Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman published Computers and Thought, a book composed of articles on Artificial Intelligence, the first of its kind. Feigenbaum and Feldman edited and wrote some...

Global Cybersecurity Day 2021

Building Nha Trang-Khanh Hoa in becoming an innovation center in the Age of Global Enlightenment, welcoming Club de Madrid Policy Dialog 2022 to Vietnam

8:00 AM – 9:30 PM EST, December 9, 2021 (8:00 PM – 9:30 PM ICT, December 9) Organizers: Boston Global Forum and Club de Madrid Topics: Club de Madrid Policy Dialog 2022 “Shaping an Age of Global Enlightenment” Building flagship areas in the...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – “The Society of Mind” by Marvin Minsky was published

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Marvin Minsky publishes The Society of Mind in 1987. This book is a theoretical description of the mind as a collection of cooperating agents. Marvin Minsky was an American cognitive and computer scientist....

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the British government launches the Alvey Programme

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the Alvey Programme was launched by the British government in 1983. It is a project developed in response to Japan’s own Fifth Generation Computer project. There was no specific focus or directive,...

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...