AIWS History of AI

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...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Claude Shannon was born on 30 April, 1916

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Claude Shannon was born on 30 April, 1916. He is recognized as the father of Information Technology. Shannon also participated and was a part of the inception of the Dartmouth Conference. Claude Shannon...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Unimate became the first industrial labor robot

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...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Marvin Minsky and John McCarthy founded the MIT AI Lab

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...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the Alvey Programme was launched by the British government

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,...

The Shinzo Abe Initiative 2nd Conference: Japan’s Prominence in the New Age of Global Enlightenment

The PDF of this publication can downloaded here. Tokyo, April 5th, 2023 Contributors: Nazli Choucri, Michael Dukakis, Tuan Anh Nguyen, Quynh Nham, Thomas Patterson, Alex Pentland, Shyamal Sharma, David Silbersweig   The Boston Global Forum Shinzo...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Herbert 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...