History of Artifical Intelligence By Rayden Smith Jul 11, 1936 Alan Turing suggests that a universal machine can do any calculation. Jul 11, 1947 Arthur Samuel develops a Checkers game that can learn its mistakes. Jul 12, 1947 Norbert Weiner writes the book Cybernetics Jul 11, 1950 Turing suggests that machines could one day have intelligence Jul 11, 1953 W. Grey Walter develops a 'tortoise' that moves under its own power Jul 11, 1956 John McCarthy coins the term artifical intelligence Jul 11, 1958 LISP is introduced by McCarthy Jul 24, 1959 Norbert Weiner says that if comp's could think like humans it would be both effective and dangerous Jul 24, 1961 Samuel beaten by checkers playing program Jul 24, 1962 Dr Frank Rosenblatt that a neutral system can recognise visual patterns Jul 24, 1963 Dr Weizenbaum creates ELIZA Jul 24, 1964 Fuzzy Logic created by Zadeh Jul 24, 1965 Work commences on DENDRAL, the first expert system Jul 24, 1969 Shakey (a robot), is developed to manipulate blocks Jul 24, 1969 Minsky and Perpert prove percpetions aren't the basis for a computer Jul 24, 1971 Terry Winograd develops SHRUDLU Jul 24, 1972 PROLOG is developed Jul 24, 1976 MYCIN is produced Jul 24, 1976 Hearsay is introduced Jul 24, 1977 Work on a sheep shearing robot begins Jul 24, 1979 A backgammon robot defeats the world champion Jul 24, 1980 Interest resparked in AI Jul 24, 1982 Japan announces the $M400 Project Jul 24, 1985 The system Q&A is produced Jul 24, 1986 Significant advances in problem solving involving patterns Jul 24, 1991 US Military use AI systems Jul 24, 1995 Voice recognition used in home computers Jul 24, 2000 ALICE, wins the Loebner Prize for the Turing Test Jul 24, 2001 Sony Pets (AIBO) are developed Jul 24, 2001 Trilobyte developed by Electrolux, is a robot vacuum cleaner Jul 24, 2007 ASIMO is made and can walk and run
