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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...

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 – 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,...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – DARPA ends the Strategic Computing Initiative in 1993

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

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...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio, and others published papers on neural networks and handwriting recognition

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...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Rodney Brooks published “Elephants Don’t Play Chess”

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Rodney Brooks published “Elephants Don’t Play Chess” in 1990. The paper proposed a “group-up approach” to developing AI, in contrast with Classical AI. Brooks dubbed this approach “Nouvell...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert published an expanded edition of Perceptrons

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert published an expanded edition of Perceptrons in 1988. The original book was published in 1969. The original book explored the concept of the “perceptron”, but also...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the ACM named Yoshua Bengio, Geofrrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun recipients of the Turing Award in 2018

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the ACM named Yoshua Bengio, Geofrrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun recipients of the Turing Award in 2018 for breakthroughs that made deep neural networks critical in computing. The Turing Award is one of the...