alan turing writes on computable numbers in which he suggests a universal machine that can do any calculation
Arthur Samuels creates a checkers playing program that learns from its own mistakes
Norbert Weiner writes the book cybernetics
Turing suggests that machines might some day possess inteligence
W.grey.walters makes a machine that moves untill batteries are low then seeks a energy sourece or power outlet and recharges itself
John McCarthy coins the term artificial intelligence
LISP the most commonly used AI lanuage is introduced by McCarthy
Norbert thinks that computers that think like humans would be both effective but dangerous
Samuel beaten by his checkers program
Frank rosenbelt proves that perceptrons and a nerual network can be programmed
Dr weizenbaum of MIT develops ELIZA
Fuzzy logic introduced by Zadeh
work began on DENDRAL
Minsky and Papert prove perceptrons cannot be used as a basis for a general computer
shakey, a radio linked, mobile robot with built in tv and rage finder is developed
Terry winograd from MIT develops SHRUDLU
the AI lanuage PROLOG developed
MYCIN developed
HEARSAY introduced
work starts on shear magic
BGK 9.8 beats human backgammon world champ
developments in knowledge engineering and inference systems respark the interest in the potential of AI
Japan announces the $M400 project
Q and A introduced
developments with ANN's lead to significant advances in problem solving
us millitary use ai based tech
voice and character recognition used in home computers
ALICE wins Loebner prize
OWL Web Ontology Language W3C Recommendation
Recommendation technology based on tracking web activity or media usage brings AI to marketing. See TiVo Suggestions
Blue Brain is born, a project to simulate the brain at molecular detail
one of the world's oldest scientific journals, puts out a special issue on using AI to understand biological intelligence, titled Models of Natural Action Selection
Checkers is solved by a team of researchers at the University of Alberta
