AIWS History of AI

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – MIT receives a $2.2 million grant in June 1963 from DARPA

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – MIT receives a $2.2 million grant in June 1963 from DARPA, which was used to fund project MAC. This project included the AI Group of Marvin Minsky and John McCarthy. DARPA is the Defense Advanced Research...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Claude Shannon was born on 30 April, 1916

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Claude Shannon was born on 30 April, 1916. He is recognized as the father of Information Technology. Shannon also participated and was a part of the inception of the Dartmouth Conference. Claude Shannon...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – IBM “Deep Blue” machine defeats Garry Kasparov, the then-reigning World Chess Champion, at chess, in a highly-publicised match on 11 May, 1997. This date was the conclusion of 2 matches, one starting...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Frank Rosenblatt developed the Perceptron in 1957

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 – Marvin Minsky and Roger Schank warned of a second AI winter in 1984

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Marvin Minsky and Roger Schank warned of a second AI winter at a meeting of the American Assocation of Artificial Intelligence in 1984. Their prediction would come true 3 years later. Marvin Minksy was...

The United Nations 2045 Roundtable: A Distinguished City to Honor the United Nations’ First Century

                                                       The United Nations 2045 Roundtable                              A Distinguished City to Honor the United Nations’ First Century                ...

United Nations 2045 Roundtable: A Distinguished City to Honor the United Nations’ First Century

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

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 – Marvin Minsky was quoted in Life magazine, “In from three to eight years we will have a machine with the general intelligence of an average human being”

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – in 1970 Marvin Minsky was quoted in Life magazine, “In from three to eight years we will have a machine with the general intelligence of an average human being.” Marvin Minsky was interviewed by Life...