AIWS History of AI

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – John McCarthy proposed the ‘advice taker’ in 1959

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – John McCarthy proposed the “advice taker” in his paper “Programs with Common Sense.” This hypothetical program was the first to use logic to represent information. The paper was published in 1959. John...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Frank Rosenblatt developed the Perceptron

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Frank Rosenblatt developed the Perceptron in 1957. It is a form of neural network that allowed pattern-recognition. Frank Rosenblatt was an American psychologist. Born in 1928, Rosenblatt would go on...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Bletchley Park cryptologists broke the German Enigma code

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Bletchley Park cryptologists broke the German Enigma code on 9th July, 1941. Alan Turing, considered the founder of computer science and AI, played a vital role in this process in developing the Bombe. Alan...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – The UN Charter Day Roundtable: A Social Contract in the Age of AI and Intellectual Society was hosted in 2020

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – The UN Charter Day Roundtable: A Social Contract in the Age of AI and Intellectual Society was hosted on June 26, 2020. The roundtable was an event of the UN to discuss the Social Contract 2020 (A New...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the Dartmouth Conference began on June 18, 1956

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the Dartmouth Conference began on 18 June 1956. This gathering would run through the entire summer at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The Dartmouth Conference was originally dreamt up by...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Judea Pearl receives the ACM Turing Award 2011

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Judea Pearl receives the ACM Turing Award 2011 on 16 June, 2012. He was chosen by ACM for his contributions to the field of Artificial Intelligence, most notably probabilistic and causal reasoning. The...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Edward Feigenbaum, Bruce G. Buchanan, Joshua Lederberg, and Carl Djerassi began work on Dendral

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Edward Feigenbaum, Bruce G. Buchanan, Joshua Lederberg, and Carl Djerassi began work on Dendral in 1965. This was an AI project that later also became the first expert system. Edward Feigenbaum is an...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – The Book of Why by Judea Pearl was published

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – The Book of Why by Judea Pearl was published on 15 May, 2018. The book discusses causality and Bayesian probability, as well as their relations to fields such as AI and statistics. Judea Pearl is a renowned...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – IBM “Deep Blue” machine defeated Garry Kasparov, the then-reigning World Chess Champion, at chess, in a highly-publicised match on 11 May, 1997. This date was the conclusion of 2 matches, one starting...