AIWS History of AI

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...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert publishes the expanded edition of Perceptrons

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert published an expanded edition of Perceptrons in 1988. The original book was published in 1969. The original book explored the concept of the “perceptron”, but also...

President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic gave a keynote speech at the United Nations Centennial Roundtable “Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment”

On September 24, 2021, HE. Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, President of Croatia (2015-2020) gave a keynote speech at the United Nations Centennial Roundtable. Governor Michael Dukakis, co-founder and Chair of the Boston Global Forum (BGF), was moderator, with...

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....

Former President of Croatia, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, will present a keynote speech at the Boston Global Forum on September 24

President of Croatia (2015-2020) Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović will visit the Boston Global Forum on September 24, 2021, where she will meet and discuss with Governor Michael Dukakis and leaders of the Boston Global Forum, then attend and give keynote speech...

“Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment” at the Riga Conference 2021

The editor and distinguished contributors to the book Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment will present and discuss significant ideas of the book at the Riga Conference 2021, at the session “Remaking the World – The Second...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Judea Pearl publishes “Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems”

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – computer scientist Judea Pearl published Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems in 1988. The book is, according to the publisher, about “the theoretical foundations and computational methods...