The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on AI begins
Dartmouth Summer Research Project · Mid 1956 (date approximate)
Dartmouth Summer Research Project
System
Dartmouth Summer Research Project
Series
Dartmouth College
Venue
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Date (best guess)
Mid 1956 (date approximate)
Lab / Organization
Dartmouth College
Nickname
The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on AI begins
Researchers
John McCarthy
Marvin Minsky
Claude Shannon
Nathaniel Rochester
Marvin Minsky
Claude Shannon
Nathaniel Rochester
The roughly two-month workshop that founded artificial intelligence as a field convened at Dartmouth in mid-June 1956. Organizer John McCarthy had coined the term 'artificial intelligence' in the 1955 proposal for the gathering. The meeting brought together the researchers who would define the discipline for decades and set its founding research agenda. (June 18 is a commonly cited start; sources vary on the exact opening day.)
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