The General Problem Solver: Simon and Newell’s Ambitious Project (1957-1960)
In the annals of artificial intelligence, few projects loom as large or as ambitious as…
LISP: John McCarthy’s Language for AI (1958-1960)
In the late 1950s, John McCarthy—a mathematician fresh from co-organising the Dartmouth Conference—decided that existing…
The Perceptron: Frank Rosenblatt’s Neural Network Breakthrough (1958)
When psychologist-turned-computer-scientist Frank Rosenblatt unveiled the Perceptron in July 1958, reporters hailed it as “the…
Early AI Programs: The Logic Theorist (1955–1956)
Before “artificial intelligence” even had a name, Allen Newell, Herbert A. Simon, and programmer Cliff…
The Birth of AI: The Dartmouth Conference (1956)
When twenty researchers gathered on the leafy campus of Dartmouth College in the summer of…
Turing’s Vision: The Imitation Game and the Turing Test (1950)
In October 1950, Alan Turing published “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” in the journal Mind, asking…