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This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Joseph Weizenbaum was born on January 8th, 1923

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Joseph Weizenbaum was born on January 8th, 1923. Weizenbaum published the program ELIZA in 1966 which could mimic conversation with humans. Although Weizenbaum was considered a father of Artificial Intelligence,...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the end of the first AI Winter

Yesterday, the HAI board and initiative announced the HAI 2020 awards and nominations which can be read here in full. This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the end of the first AI Winter in 1980. This was due to the adoption of “expert...

AI World Society Announces History of AI 2020 Awards

RELEASE: December 31, 2020 1200 EST / 1800 CET   AI World Society Announces History of AI 2020 Awards   BOSTON – The AI World Society today announced the History of AI 2020 Awards. The HAI Awards recognize people and achievements in the AI...

HAI 2020 Nomination – Joy Buolamwini

NOMINATION History of AI 2020 Joy Buolamwini Joy Adowaa Buolamwini is a Ghanaian-American computer scientist and digital activist based at the MIT Media Lab. She founded the Algorithmic Justice League, an organisation that looks to challenge bias in decision...

HAI 2020 Nomination – Ursula von der Leyen

NOMINATION   History of AI 2020 President Ursula von der Leyen   Trained as a physician, Ursula von der Leyen entered politics as a cabinet minister in the German state of Lower Saxony. When Angela Merkel became German chancellor in 2005, she...

HAI 2020 Nomination – DeepMind/AlphaFold

Towards the end of 2020, Google DeepMind announced that they developed an AI network (AlphaFold) that determines a protein’s 3D shape from its amino-acid sequence. The ability to accurately predict protein structures from their amino-acid sequence would...

HAI 2020 Nomination – Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Values Index 2020

NOMINATION History of AI 2020   In the last days of 2020 Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Values: AISCI-2020 report was published. The report was prepared by the Center for AI and Digital Policy at the Michael Dukakis Institute and conducted...

The History of AI event of 2020 – The Social Contract for the AI Age

30.12.2020. Zlatko Lagumdzija The History of AI event of 2020 – The Social Contract for the AI Age Zlatko Lagumdzija Former Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina Member of World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid Member of the History of AI Board   Social...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the MIT AI Lab was founded by John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the MIT AI Lab was founded by John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky in 1959. This marked the beginning of coordinated AI research at MIT. The lab focused on researching and developing AI. The Lab went through...