AIWS History of AI

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Marvin Minsky and Dean Edmonds built SNARC, the first artificial neural network

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Marvin Minsky and Dean Edmonds built SNARC, the first artificial neural network, in 1951. SNARC stands for the Stochastic Neural Analog Reinforcement Calculator. It is a neural net machine, which itself...

US Tapping China – Trends of Surveillance and Digital Authoritarianism in the US and China

“US Tapping China: Trends of Surveillance and Digital Authoritarianism in the US and China” is a paper by Paula Soumaya Domit, Rebecca Leeper, and Larissa Zutter, published using the Common Good Digital Framework in September 2020. The...

The Social Contract for the AI Age, completed and officially launched on 09/09/2020

This is the first social contract in the digital, Internet and AI era, a platform for connection among governments, stakeholders, and private and public institutions, and for balancing centers of power, initiated by the Boston Global Forum, will pay particular...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the Strategic Computing Initiative founded by DARPA

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – DARPA founded the Strategic Computing Initiative to fund research of advanced computer hardware and artificial intelligence in 1983. DARPA stands for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a research...

Transatlantic Approaches on Digital Governance: A New Social Contract in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Press Note 16-18 September 2020   Democratic former Heads of State and Government, Members of Club de Madrid, current Government representatives, experts and renowned scholars will analyse global challenges and offer actionable policy solutions at a...

This week in the History of AI at AIWS.net – the Dartmouth Summer Research Project proposal

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence was proposed. The proposal was submitted on September 2, 1955, but written on August 31, 1955. It was the collaboration of John McCarthy,...

Building the AIWS City

Nguyen Anh Tuan, CEO of the Boston Global Forum World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid Conference, September 17, 2020   Purpose: To create an all-digital, virtual, kind, intelligent, and innovative ecosystem for work and life named “the AI...

Zlatko Lagumdžija, Former Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina, joins the History of AI Board

Prime Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija, also a professor of Computer Science, becomes a Member of the History of AI Board. He was a speaker at the United Nations 2045 Roundtable together with the Father of the Internet Vint Cerf on August 21, 2020. Over 30...

Vint Cerf speaks about historical moments in the birth of the Internet at the History of AI

On August 21, 2020, Vint Cerf, father of the Internet, was a keynote speaker at the United Nations 2045 Roundtable and the History of AI. Vint Cerf talked about historical moments at the birth of Internet. However, history is not just yesterday, it is...