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Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence

Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence

John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Claude Shannon, and Nathaniel Rochester convene a 2-month workshop at Dartmouth College that coins the term "artificial intelligence" and founds the field as a distinct academic discipline, proceeding on the conjecture that "every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it"

Year 1956
Date 6/18
Location Hanover, New Hampshire, United States
Layer 1
Visibility HIDDEN
artificial-intelligence computer-science founding-event machine-learning dartmouth technology tax:deliberative-assembly-and-congress

Key Figures

John McCarthy Marvin Minsky Claude Shannon Nathaniel Rochester Allen Newell Herbert A. Simon Arthur Samuel Ray Solomonoff Oliver Selfridge Trenchard More

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2016 · thematic
Invention of the Microprocessor
Invention of the Microprocessor
1971 · thematic
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Minsky & Papert Publish "Perceptrons"
1969 · same figure
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Minsky & Papert Publish "Perceptrons"
1969 · thematic
Turing Publishes "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"
Turing Publishes "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"
1950 · same era
Turing Publishes "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"
Turing Publishes "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"
1950 · precedes
Turing Publishes "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"
Turing Publishes "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"
1950 · thematic
Turing Publishes "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"
Turing Publishes "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"
1950 · influences
AlexNet Wins the ImageNet Challenge
AlexNet Wins the ImageNet Challenge
2012 · follows
AlexNet Wins the ImageNet Challenge
AlexNet Wins the ImageNet Challenge
2012 · thematic
Launch of Sputnik 1
Launch of Sputnik 1
1957 · same era
Launch of Sputnik 1
Launch of Sputnik 1
1957 · follows
Launch of Sputnik 1
Launch of Sputnik 1
1957 · thematic
Launch of Sputnik 1
Launch of Sputnik 1
1957 · influences
JFK's "We Choose to Go to the Moon" Speech
JFK's "We Choose to Go to the Moon" Speech
1962 · same era
JFK's "We Choose to Go to the Moon" Speech
JFK's "We Choose to Go to the Moon" Speech
1962 · follows
Rosenblatt Demonstrates the Perceptron
Rosenblatt Demonstrates the Perceptron
1958 · same era
Rosenblatt Demonstrates the Perceptron
Rosenblatt Demonstrates the Perceptron
1958 · follows
Rosenblatt Demonstrates the Perceptron
Rosenblatt Demonstrates the Perceptron
1958 · same figure
Rosenblatt Demonstrates the Perceptron
Rosenblatt Demonstrates the Perceptron
1958 · thematic
Publication of "Attention Is All You Need"
Publication of "Attention Is All You Need"
2017 · thematic
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ImageNet: A Large-Scale Hierarchical Image Database
2009 · thematic
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ImageNet: A Large-Scale Hierarchical Image Database
2009 · follows
Shannon Publishes "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"
Shannon Publishes "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"
1948 · same era
Shannon Publishes "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"
Shannon Publishes "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"
1948 · precedes
Shannon Publishes "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"
Shannon Publishes "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"
1948 · same figure
Shannon Publishes "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"
Shannon Publishes "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"
1948 · thematic
Shannon Publishes "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"
Shannon Publishes "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"
1948 · influences
Backpropagation Paper Published in Nature
Backpropagation Paper Published in Nature
1986 · thematic
Backpropagation Paper Published in Nature
Backpropagation Paper Published in Nature
1986 · follows
Hinton Publishes "A Fast Learning Algorithm for Deep Belief Nets"
Hinton Publishes "A Fast Learning Algorithm for Deep Belief Nets"
2006 · thematic
Hinton Publishes "A Fast Learning Algorithm for Deep Belief Nets"
Hinton Publishes "A Fast Learning Algorithm for Deep Belief Nets"
2006 · follows
Deep Blue Defeats Garry Kasparov
Deep Blue Defeats Garry Kasparov
1997 · thematic
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Gemini 4 (Ed White's Spacewalk)
1965 · same era
G
Gemini 4 (Ed White's Spacewalk)
1965 · follows
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First Execution of the Manchester Baby (SSEM)
1948 · same era