AIWS History of AI

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – WABOT-2 was built by Waseda University

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Waseda University built WABOT-2 in 1984. A follow up to the WABOT-1 they built in 1973, this robot was also anthropomorphic, but improvements were made. The WABOT-2 was a follow-up to the WABOT-1 project....

Senior CSAIL Professor joins the History of AI Board

Professor Randall Davis has served as Associate Director of MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (1993-1998), as a Research Director of CSAIL from 2003-2007, and as Associate Director of CSAIL from 2012-2014. Dr. Davis has been a seminal contributor...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – WABOT-1 was built by Waseda University

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Waseda University built WABOT-1 in 1973. It was the first full-scale anthropomorphic robot, with a climb-control system, a vision system, and a conversation system. The WABOT-1 was the first of its kind....

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...