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Designer of the Colossus computer
Alan Turing writes On Computable Numbers in which he suggest a universal machine that can do any calculation. -
Arthur Samuel
IBM's Arthur Samuel develops a checkers plauing program that can learn from its own mistakes. -
Norbert Weiner
Norbert Weiner writes the book Cybernetics taht gives its name to a science among other things he suggests taht the way the brain is built may determine the way it workds and constructing machines like brains may help us to understand the brain. -
Turing
Turing suggests that machines might some day possess intelligence; he proposes the first test for possible machine intelligence (now called the Turing test) -
W.Grey Walter
W.Grey Walter develops a 'tortise' that moves under its own power until the batteries are low; it then seeks out and connects to the nearest power outlet and recharges itself (can this be described s hunger?) -
John McCarthy
John McCarthy of Darmouth College (US) coins the term artifical intelligence -
LISP
LISP the most commonlu used AI language is introduced by McCarthy -
Dr Norbert Weiner
Dr Norbert Weiner suggests that computers taht could think like humans would be 'both effective, and dangerous'. -
Samuel
Samuel beaten by his checkers playing prgram; others experiemnt into developing game playing theory -
Dr Frank Rosenblatt
Dr Frank Rosenblatt demonstrates that perceptrons coupled to a simple neural network can be programmed by example to recognise visual patterns. -
Dr Weizenbaum
Dr Weizenbaum of MIT desins ELIZA -
fuzzy logic
Fuzzy logic introduced by Zadeh to explain some of the situations where Yes/No anser will not suffice -
DENDRAL
Work begun on DENDRAL, the first expert system. -
Minksy and Papert
Minksy and Papert prove perceptron cannont be used as the basis for a general computer effectively ending research into nueral netwroks for 15 years. -
Shakey
Shakey, a radio linked, mobile robot with built in TV and range finder is developed to manipulate bloacks using a program called STRIPS that could "plan" a series of actions. -
Terry Winograd
Terry Winograd at MIT develops SHRUDLU an NL interface to an imaginary 'block world' that was the first to demonstrate that a machine could have any real gasp language. -
AI language
the AI language PROLOG (prgrammed logic) developed. -
MYCIN
MYCIN, an expert system to diagnose bacterial infections is produced -
Hearsay
Hearsay, a speech understanding program is introduced -
Shear Magic
Work starts on Shear Magic, an sheep shearing robot (WA) -
BKG
BKG 9.8, a backgammon playing program defeats the (human) world champion -
Resparks potentail for AI
Developments in knowledge enginerring nad interference systems helps respark the interest in the potential for AI -
Japan announces
Japan announces the $M400 Fifth Generation Project to over ten years, put a core computer in every home and small business; this knowledge information processor (KIP) would work trough a natural language interface; the overall aim was to establish a knowledge industry becuase the Japanese saw knowledge as the new wealth in a post-industrial society. -
Q&A
Q&A, a natural language based PC database program is itroduced. -
ANN
Developments with ANNs lead to significant advances into solving problems associated with pattern mathching. -
US military
US military use AI based technology in weapons systems such as missiles and jet fighters. -
Voice
Voice and character recognition used in home computer. -
ALICE
ALICE an open source NL AI chat robot, wins the Loebner Prize for the Turing test.