AIWS History of AI

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – IBM “Watson” machine defeats 2 human Jeopardy! champions

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – IBM “Watson” machine defeats 2 human Jeopardy! champions. The machine went on the show on February 16th, 2011 and faced off against Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, previous winners of the famous game-show.  The...

The History of AI House at NovaWorld Phan Thiet

On January 31, 2021, Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, Director of Michael Dukakis Institute visited NovaWorld Phan Thiet and discussed with NovaWorld Phan Thiet leaders about building a branch of Michael Dukakis Institute and the History of AI House at NovaWorld...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – H. A. Simon wrote,  “machines will be capable, within twenty years, of doing any work a man can do”

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – H. A. Simon was quoted with a prediction,  “machines will be capable, within twenty years, of doing any work a man can do” in the 1960s. He wrote this in his “The New Science of Management Decision” Herbert...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Unimate was the first industrial robot to work

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Unimate, an industrial robot developed in the 50s, becomes the first to work in New Jersey in 1961. Unimate was invented by George Davol, who filed the patent in 1954. Davol met Joseph Engelberger in...

Joy Buolamwini is a Person of the History of AI 2020

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 making software. In 2020, Buolamwini...

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,...