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Coining the Term, Artificial Intelligence

8/31/1955
John McCarthy at a conference in 2006

John McCarthy at a conference in 2006

On August 31, 1955 John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, and Claude Shannon invited participants to a summer session at Dartmouth College to conduct research on what they called “Artificial Intelligence” (AI), thereby coining the term. (See Reading 11.5.)

Ray Solomonoff's wide, Grace Solomonoff, published an illustrated account of one of the participants in the summer research project entitled Ray Solomonoff and the Dartmouth Research Project in Artificial Intelligence, 1956,  which was available from raysolomonoff.com in September 2020.

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