The Dartmouth Summer Research Conference on Artificial Intelligence was the name of a 1956 conference now considered the seminal event for artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...

 as a field.

People

Organised by John McCarthy

John McCarthy (computer scientist)

John McCarthy was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist. He coined the term "artificial intelligence" , invented the Lisp programming language and was highly influential in the early development of AI.McCarthy also influenced other areas of computing such as time sharing systems...

 (then at Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College

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) and formally proposed by McCarthy, Marvin Minsky

Marvin Minsky

Marvin Lee Minsky is an American cognitive scientist in the field of artificial intelligence , co-founder of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory, and author of several texts on AI and philosophy.-Biography:...

, Nathaniel Rochester

Nathaniel Rochester (computer scientist)

Nathan Rochester designed the IBM 701, wrote the first assembler and participated in the founding of the field of artificial intelligence.- Early work :...

 and Claude Shannon, the proposal is credited with introducing the term 'artificial intelligence'.

Founding statement

The conference lasted a month, and it was essentially an extended brainstorming

Brainstorming

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 session.The introduction states:
(McCarthy et al. 1955)
The proposal goes on to discuss computers, natural language processing

Natural language processing

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, neural networks

Neural Networks

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, theory of computation

Theory of computation

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, abstraction

Abstraction

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 and creativity

Creativity

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 ( these areas within the field of artificial intelligence are considered still relevant to the work of the field).According to Stottler Henke Associates

Stottler Henke Associates

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, besides the proposal's authors, attendees at the conference included Ray Solomonoff

Ray Solomonoff

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, Oliver Selfridge

Oliver Selfridge

Oliver Gordon Selfridge , grandson of Harry Gordon Selfridge, the founder of Selfridges' department stores, was a pioneer of artificial intelligence. He has been called the "Father of Machine Perception."...

, Trenchard More

Trenchard More

Trenchard More is a professor at Dartmouth College who participated in the 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence....

, Arthur Samuel

Arthur Samuel

Arthur Lee Samuel was an American pioneer in the field of computer gaming and artificial intelligence. The Samuel Checkers-playing Program appears to be the world's first self-learning program, and as such a very early demonstration of the fundamental concept of artificial intelligence...

, Herbert Simon

Herbert Simon

Herbert Alexander Simon was an American political scientist, economist, sociologist, and psychologist, and professor—most notably at Carnegie Mellon University—whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive psychology, cognitive science, computer science, public administration, economics,...

, and Allen Newell

Allen Newell

Allen Newell was a researcher in computer science and cognitive psychology at the RAND corporation and at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, Tepper School of Business, and Department of Psychology...

.

See also

• History of artificial intelligence
  History of artificial intelligence
  The history of artificial intelligence began in antiquity, with myths, stories and rumors of artificial beings endowed with intelligence or consciousness by master craftsmen; as Pamela McCorduck writes, AI began with "an ancient wish to forge the gods."...
  
  
• Campus in Multidisciplinary Perception and Intelligence of Albacete 2006
  Campus in Multidisciplinary Perception and Intelligence of Albacete 2006
  "50 Years of Artificial Intelligence: Campus in Multidisciplinary Perception and Intelligence, CMPI-2006" was the most important event, for the celebration of the fifty years of the Dartmouth Conference, in spanish language. It was celebrated in the city of Albacete .In 2006 was celebrated the...
  
   -- a 50th anniversary conference.
• AI@50
  AI@50
  AI@50, formally known as the "Dartmouth Artificial Intelligence Conference: The Next Fifty Years" , was a conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Dartmouth Conferences which effectively inaugurated the history of artificial intelligence...
  
   -- a 50th anniversary conference, including some of the original delegates.

External links

1. 50 Años De La Inteligencia Artificial - Campus Multidisciplinar en Percepción e Inteligencia - Albacete
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    2006 (Spain
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