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History of AI

  • Alan Turing

    writes on Computable Numbers
  • Arthur Samuel

    Develops a cheakers playing program that learns froms his mistakes.
  • Norbert Weiner

    writes a book about Cybernetics
  • Turing test

    Turing suggests that machines might some day possess intelligence.
  • Tortoise

    W. Grey Walter developes a 'tortoise' that moves under it's own power untill it's battery gets low.
  • Artificial Intelligence

    John McCarthy of Dartmouth College coins the term artifictial intelligence.
  • LISP

  • Dr Weiner

  • Cheakers Program

  • Dr Rosenblatt

    perceptrons coupled to a simple netural network can be programed.
  • Dendral

    the first expert system
  • Shakey

    a radio linked mobile robot
  • Terry Winograd

    developes SHRUDLU
  • AI languague Prolog

  • MYCIN

    and expert system to dignose bacterial infections
  • Hearsay

    a speach understanding program is introduced
  • Shear Magic

    A sheep shearing robot
  • BKG 9.8

    A backgammon playing program defeats the human champion
  • Rebirth of interest in AI

  • $M400 Fith Gen Project

    to put a core computer in every home and smal buisness.
  • Q&A

    A natural language based PC database program is introduced.
  • ANNs

    lead to significant advances into solving problems assosiated with pattern matching
  • An AI military

    US military use AI based technology in wepon systems
  • voice and character recognition

    used in home computers
  • ALICE

    an open source NL AI chat robot wins loebner Prize for the Turing test.
  • ASIMO

    A robot that can walk and run.
  • RoboWars

    Australian Robot fighting.
  • AILA

    A robot designed to look female, this quite different because robots are usually male or genderless.