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Alan Turning writes on computable numbers
Alan Turning writes on computable numbers wich he suggests a universal machine that can do any calculation. -
checkers plaing program
IBM's Arthur Samuel develops a checkers plaing program that can learn from its own mistakes -
Norber Weiner writes the book cybernetics
Norber Weiner writes the book cybernetics that give its name to a science; among other things he suggests that the way the brain is built may determine the way it works and constructing machines like brains may help us understand the brain. -
Invention of turning test
Turning suggest that machines might some day posses intelligence; he proposes the first test for possible machine intelligence (now called the turning test) -
W. Grey Walter develops a 'tortoise'
W. Grey Walter develops a 'tortoise' that moves under its own power until the batteries are low; it then seeks out and connects to the nearest power outles and recharges itself. -
coins the term artificial intelligence.
John McCarthy of Dartmouth College (US) coins the term artificial intelligence. -
LISt processing is introduced
LISP (LISt processing) the most commonly used AI langueage is introduce by McCarthy -
Dr Norber Weiner suggest that AI can be "both effective, and dangerous"
Dr Norber Weiner suggest that computers that could think like humans would be "both effective, and dangerous" -
Samuel beaten by his checkers playing program
Samuel beaten by his checkers playing program; others experiment into developing game playing theory -
Dr Frank Rosenblatt demonstrates that perceptrons
Dr Frank Rosenblatt demonstrates that perceptrons coupled to a simple neural network can be programmed by exmple to recognise visual patterns -
ELIZA is Designed
Dr Weizenbaum of MIT desings ELIZA -
Fuzzy logic is introduce
Fuzzy logic introduced by Zadeh to explain some of the situations where yes/no answer answer will not suffice. -
Work begun on DENDRAL
Work begun on DENDRAL, the first expert system -
Minsky and Papert prove perceptrons cannot be used as the basis of a general computer
Minsky and Papert prove perceptrons cannot be used as the basis for a general computer effectively ending research into neural networks for 15 years -
radio linked mobile robot
Shakey, a radio linked mobile robot with built in TV and tange finder is devloped into manipulate blocks using a program called strips that could "plan" a series of actions. -
development of SHRUDLU
Terry Winogran 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 graps of language. -
PROLOG developed
the AI language PROLOG (programmed logic) developed -
peach understanding program is introduced
Hearsay, speach understanding program is introduced -
MYCIN developed
MYCIN aexpert system diagnose bacterial infections is produced -
Robot sheep shearing
work starts on shear magic and sheep shearing robot (WA) -
a backgammon playing program defeats human world champ
BKG 9.8, a backgammon playing program defeats human world champ