13 Jan 05
CS 3243 - Lecture 1a
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Abridged history of AI
l1943     McCulloch & Pitts: Boolean circuit model of brain
l1950     Turing's "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"
l1956 Dartmouth meeting: "Artificial Intelligence" adopted
l1952–69 Look, Ma, no hands!
l1950s Early AI programs, including Samuel's checkers
 program, Newell & Simon's Logic Theorist,
Gelernter's Geometry Engine
l1965 Robinson's complete algorithm for logical reasoning
l1966–73 AI discovers computational complexity
 Neural network research almost disappears
l1969–79 Early development of knowledge-based systems
l1980–  AI becomes an industry
l1986– Neural networks return to popularity
l1987– AI becomes a science
l1995– The emergence of intelligent agents