AIWS History of AI

The Cycle of Prosperity: Ensuring Equal Opportunity

Professor Alex Sandy Pentland, MIT, co-founder of AIWS Innovation Network (AIWS.net), contributes to the book “Remaking the World – the Age of Global Enlightenment.” Here are some paragraphs in his chapter: “What will the UN 2030 development goals...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Judea Pearl receives the ACM Turing Award 2011

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Judea Pearl receives the ACM Turing Award 2011 on 16 June, 2012. He was chosen by ACM for his contributions to the field of Artificial Intelligence, most notably probabilistic and causal reasoning. The...

Professor Alex Pentland contributed visions of Our Digital Future to the book ”Remaking the World – The Age of Global Enlightenment”

On May 27, 2021 at the launching the book “Remaking the Wolrd – The Age of Global Enlightenment”, Professor Alex Pentland, MIT, Co-founder of AIWS.net, went in detail on his contributions to this e-book as well as urged for a change in the SDG 2030...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the World Leadership Alliance Club de Madrid organized the Online Roundtable “A New Social Contract in the Age of AI”

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the World Leadership Alliance Club de Madrid organized the Online Roundtable “A New Social Contract in the Age of AI” on May 12, 2020. The Roundtable was organized by the WLA-CdM in conjunction with...

Indian Ambassador Raghavan speaking at the AI International Accord Conference on April 28, 2021

I would like to warmly compliment Prof. Choucri for a masterly compilation of a concise, and yet comprehensive, paper outlining the elements of an AIIA, capturing the intricacies of the issues involved and appreciating the breadth of the challenges. She...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Edward Feigenbaum formally introduces expert systems

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Edward Feigenbaum formally introduces expert systems in 1965. He was a part of the Stanford Heuristic Programming Project, which contained other notable AI pioneers. Edward Feigenbaum is an American computer...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – The Book of Why by Judea Pearl was published in 2018

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...

UN Centennial Roundtable “Digital Tax and Trade Consortium”

The plethora of government tax, fiscal, and trade digital transformation initiatives are each occurring within a single country domain. A preliminary analysis of this growing digital transformation demand reveals multi-country interest in key tax, fiscal,...

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...