1956 AD
Dartmouth summer research project
Artificial intelligence · Machine learning
The 1956 meeting brought researchers together around a program called artificial intelligence. The proposal by John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester and Claude Shannon had already used that name in 1955; the meeting helped articulate the field.
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- 2026-09-20
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