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Arthor develops a checkers playing program that can learn fro its own mistakes.
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Norbert writes a book Cybernetics that gives its name to a science; amoung other things he suggests that the brain is built may determine the way it works and constructing machines like brains may help us to understand the brain.
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Alan suggests that machines might some day posses intellegence; he proposes the first test for possable machine intellegence.
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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 outlet and recharges itself.
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John oof dartmouth college coins the term artificial intellegence
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LISP the most commanly used AI language is itroduced by McCarthy
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Dr Norbert suggests 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 demonstrates that perceptrons coupled to a simple neural network can be programmed by example to recognise visual patterns.
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designs ELIZA
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explain some of the situations where the yes/no amswer will not siffice
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DENDRAL the first expert system was beibng built
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prove perceptrons cannot be used as the basic for a general computer effectivity ending into neural networks for 15 years
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a radio linked, mobile robot with built in tv and range finder is developed to munipulate blokes using a program called strips that could plan a series of actions
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at mit develops SHRUDLU an NL interface to an imaginary block world that was the first to deminstrate that a machine could have a real grasp of language
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the AI language PROLOG (programmed logic) develop
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an expert system to diagnose bacterial infections to produce
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a speech understand program is introduced.
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work starts on a sheep shearing robot
