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Dartmouth Workshop Opening Session

In a sun-drenched Dartmouth lecture hall, John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, and other intellectual titans engage in a high-stakes debate to name and define the field of 'Artificial Intelligence'. The air

Year 1956
Date 8/1
Location Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, Usa
Layer 2
Visibility PUBLIC

Key Figures

John McCarthy Marvin Minsky Nathaniel Rochester Claude Shannon Graduate Student
Time Travel

Causal neighbors · 87 linked moments

Minsky & Papert Publish "Perceptrons"
Minsky & Papert Publish "Perceptrons"
1969 · same figure
Rosenblatt Demonstrates the Perceptron
Rosenblatt Demonstrates the Perceptron
1958 · same figure
Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence
Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence
1956 · same figure
Shannon Publishes "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"
Shannon Publishes "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"
1948 · same figure
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Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence
1955 · same figure
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Publication of Claude Shannon's 'A Mathematical Theory of Communication'
1948 · same figure
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Dartmouth Conference on Artificial Intelligence
1956 · same figure
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Dartmouth Workshop (Birth of AI)
1956 · same figure
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Dartmouth Conference on Artificial Intelligence begins
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John McCarthy creates the LISP programming language
1958 · same figure
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Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence
1956 · same figure
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Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence
1956 · same figure
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Dartmouth Conference on Artificial Intelligence
1956 · same figure
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Founding of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
1959 · same figure
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Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence
1956 · same figure
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Demonstration of the Logic Theorist at the Dartmouth Conference
1956 · same figure
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First implementation of the Lisp programming language
1958 · same figure
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Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence
1956 · same figure
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Dartmouth Workshop
1956 · same figure
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Second World Computer Chess Championship Final
1977 · influences
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Gemini 8 Launch
1966 · same era
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Gemini 8 Launch
1966 · follows
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Assassination of John F. Kennedy
1963 · same era
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Assassination of John F. Kennedy
1963 · follows
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First FORTRAN Program Execution
1954 · same era
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First FORTRAN Program Execution
1954 · precedes
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First Point‑Contact Transistor Demonstration
1947 · same era
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First Point‑Contact Transistor Demonstration
1947 · precedes
Minsky & Papert Publish "Perceptrons"
Minsky & Papert Publish "Perceptrons"
1969 · same figure
Rosenblatt Demonstrates the Perceptron
Rosenblatt Demonstrates the Perceptron
1958 · same figure
Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence
Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence
1956 · same figure
Shannon Publishes "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"
Shannon Publishes "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"
1948 · same figure
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Explorer 1 Launch
1958 · same era
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Gemini 3 Launch
1965 · same era
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Mercury-Redstone 4 Launch
1961 · same era
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Mercury-Redstone 3 Launch (Freedom 7)
1961 · same era