Potted History of AI

1943- McCulloch & Pitts: Boolean circuit model of brain
1950 -Turing’s “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”
1950s- Early AI programs, including Samuel’s checkers program,
Newell & Simon’s Logic Theorist, Gelernter’s Geometry Engine
1956 -Dartmouth meeting: “Artificial Intelligence” adopted
1965- Robinson’s complete algorithm for logical reasoning
1966–74 AI discovers computational complexity
Neural network research almost disappears
1969–79 Early development of knowledge-based systems
1980–88 Expert systems industry booms
1988–93 Expert systems industry busts: “AI Winter”
1985–95 Neural networks return to popularity
1988– Resurgence of probability; general increase in technical depth
“Nouvelle AI”: ALife, GAs, soft computing
1995– Agents agents everywhere . . .