AIWS History of AI

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...

AIWS City discussion with Paul Twomey

On September 6, Ramu Damodaran, co-chair of the United Nations Centennial Initiative, interviewed Mr. Paul Twomey, a founding figure and former CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a speaker at the Club de Madrid –...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence was proposed

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence was proposed. The proposal was submitted on September 2, 1955, but written on August 31, 1955. It was the collaboration of John McCarthy,...

AIWS City Discussion: Interview of the former acting US Secretary of Commerce Cameron Kerry ahead of the Club de Madrid-BGF Policy Lab

“Inclusive discussions and inclusive structures” are key to a truly global enlightenment, harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to advance our world, said Cameron Kerry, Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Marvin Minsky and Dean Edmonds built SNARC

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Marvin Minsky and Dean Edmonds built SNARC, the first artificial neural network, in 1951. SNARC stands for the Stochastic Neural Analog Reinforcement Calculator. It is a neural net machine, which itself...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – “Computers and Thought” was published

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...

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...