Abridged history of AI
l 1943        McCulloch & Pitts: Boolean circuit model of brain
l 1950        Turing's "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"
l 1956     Dartmouth meeting: "Artificial Intelligence" adopted
l 1952–69   Look, Ma, no hands!
l 1950s   Early AI programs, including Samuel's checkers
     program, Newell & Simon's Logic Theorist,
     Gelernter's Geometry Engine
l 1965     Robinson's complete algorithm for logical reasoning
l 1966–73   AI discovers computational complexity
     Neural network research almost disappears
l 1969–79   Early development of knowledge-based systems
l 1980–     AI becomes an industry
l 1986–    Neural networks return to popularity
l 1987–    AI becomes a science
l 1995–    The emergence of intelligent agents