AIWS History of AI

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...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the Dartmouth Conference ended on 17th August 1956

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the Dartmouth Conference ended on 17th August 1956. This gathering lasted the entire summer at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, having started on 16th June. The Dartmouth Conference was originally...

This week at the History of AI – Marvin Minsky was born on 9th August, 1927

This week at the History of AI – Marvin Minsky was born on 9th August, 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 – 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...