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Alan Turning writes on computable numbers wich he suggests a universal machine that can do any calculation.
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IBM's Arthur Samuel develops a checkers plaing program that can learn from its own mistakes
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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.
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Turning suggest that machines might some day posses intelligence; he proposes the first test for possible machine intelligence (now called the turning test)
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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.
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John McCarthy of Dartmouth College (US) coins the term artificial intelligence.
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LISP (LISt processing) the most commonly used AI langueage is introduce by McCarthy
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Dr Norber Weiner suggest that computers that could think like humans would be "both effective, and dangerous"
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Samuel beaten by his checkers playing program; others experiment into developing game playing theory
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Dr Frank Rosenblatt demonstrates that perceptrons coupled to a simple neural network can be programmed by exmple to recognise visual patterns
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Dr Weizenbaum of MIT desings ELIZA
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Fuzzy logic introduced by Zadeh to explain some of the situations where yes/no answer answer will not suffice.
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Work begun on DENDRAL, the first expert system
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Minsky and Papert prove perceptrons cannot be used as the basis for a general computer effectively ending research into neural networks for 15 years
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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.
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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.
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the AI language PROLOG (programmed logic) developed
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Hearsay, speach understanding program is introduced
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MYCIN aexpert system diagnose bacterial infections is produced
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work starts on shear magic and sheep shearing robot (WA)
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BKG 9.8, a backgammon playing program defeats human world champ