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

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AlphaGo Move 37

                    2016
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Invention of the Microprocessor

                    1971
                     · thematic
                

Deep Blue Defeats Garry Kasparov

                    1997
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AlexNet Wins the ImageNet Challenge

                    2012
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Minsky & Papert Publish "Perceptrons"

                    1969
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Minsky & Papert Publish "Perceptrons"

                    1969
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ImageNet: A Large-Scale Hierarchical Image Database

                    2009
                     · thematic
                

ImageNet: A Large-Scale Hierarchical Image Database

                    2009
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Rosenblatt Demonstrates the Perceptron

                    1958
                     · same era
                

Rosenblatt Demonstrates the Perceptron

                    1958
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Rosenblatt Demonstrates the Perceptron

                    1958
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Rosenblatt Demonstrates the Perceptron

                    1958
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Shannon Publishes "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"

                    1948
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Shannon Publishes "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"

                    1948
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Shannon Publishes "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"

                    1948
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Shannon Publishes "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"

                    1948
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Shannon Publishes "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"

                    1948
                     · influences
                

Launch of Sputnik 1

                    1957
                     · same era
                

Launch of Sputnik 1

                    1957
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Launch of Sputnik 1

                    1957
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Launch of Sputnik 1

                    1957
                     · influences
                

JFK's "We Choose to Go to the Moon" Speech

                    1962
                     · same era
                

JFK's "We Choose to Go to the Moon" Speech

                    1962
                     · follows
                

Hinton Publishes "A Fast Learning Algorithm for Deep Belief Nets"

                    2006
                     · thematic
                

Turing Publishes "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"

                    1950
                     · same era
                

Turing Publishes "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"

                    1950
                     · precedes
                

Turing Publishes "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"

                    1950
                     · thematic
                

Turing Publishes "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"

                    1950
                     · influences
                

Publication of "Attention Is All You Need"

                    2017
                     · thematic
                

Hinton Publishes "A Fast Learning Algorithm for Deep Belief Nets"

                    2006
                     · follows
                

AlexNet Wins the ImageNet Challenge

                    2012
                     · thematic
                

Backpropagation Paper Published in Nature

                    1986
                     · thematic
                

Backpropagation Paper Published in Nature

                    1986
                     · follows
                

Gemini 4 (Ed White's Spacewalk)

                    1965
                     · same era
                

Gemini 4 (Ed White's Spacewalk)

                    1965
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First Execution of the Manchester Baby (SSEM)

                    1948
                     · same era
                