Dartmouth workshop

Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence
Date1956 (1956)
DurationEight weeks
VenueDartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Organised byJohn McCarthy
ParticipantsMarvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, and Claude Shannon (who proposed the workshop), with others

The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence was a 1956 summer workshop widely considered[1][2][3] to be the founding event of artificial intelligence as a field.

The project lasted approximately six to eight weeks and was essentially an extended brainstorming session. Eleven mathematicians and scientists originally planned to attend; not all of them attended, but more than ten others came for short times.

  1. ^ Solomonoff, R.J. "The Time Scale of Artificial Intelligence; Reflections on Social Effects", Human Systems Management, Vol 5, pp. 149–153, 1985
  2. ^ Moor, J., "The Dartmouth College Artificial Intelligence Conference: The Next Fifty years", AI Magazine, Vol 27, No. 4, pp. 87–89, 2006
  3. ^ Kline, Ronald R., "Cybernetics, Automata Studies and the Dartmouth Conference on Artificial Intelligence", IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, October–December, 2011, IEEE Computer Society

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