25 Dec, 2020
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...
The HAI Initiative invites you to select the History of AI 2020
20 Dec, 2020
2020 was a special and eventful year, and yet it is ending, as we approach 2021. To cap off this memorable year, the History of AI Initiative at AIWS.net would like to receive your selections and choices for achievements, figures, and events in AI (including...
18 Dec, 2020
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the Alvey Programme was launched by the British government in 1983. It is a project developed in response to Japan’s own Fifth Generation Computer project. There was no specific focus or directive,...
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – DARPA ends the Strategic Computing Initiative in 1993
11 Dec, 2020
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the Strategic Computing Initiative was ended by DARPA in 1993. DARPA stands for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a research and development agency founded by the US Department of Defense...
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Herbert Simon and Allen Newell develop Logic Theorist
04 Dec, 2020
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Herbert Simon and Allen Newell developed Logic Theorist in December 1955. Logic Theorist is a computer program that is considered to be the first AI program. The program was designed to perform automated...
27 Nov, 2020
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio, and others in November 1998 published a series of papers. They discussed neural networks and handwriting recognition, as well as backpropagation. One of them can be read here. Yoshua...
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