Sunday, August 02, 2026

The Meeting of the Minds That Launched AI

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"The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, held from 18 June through 17 August of 1956, is widely considered the event that kicked off AI as a research discipline. Organized by John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Claude Shannon, and Nathaniel Rochester, it brought together a few dozen of the leading thinkers in AI, computer science, and information theory to map out future paths for investigation. ..."

The Meeting of the Minds That Launched AI - IEEE Spectrum


At the 1956 Dartmouth AI workshop, the organizers and a few other participants gathered in front of Dartmouth Hall. The Minsky Family


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