The 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, organized by John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, and Claude Shannon, is widely considered the founding event of ar…
The article traces the history of artificial intelligence from John McCarthy's 1955 Dartmouth workshop proposal to the present, arguing that the field's borrowed vocabulary—words like 'learning,' 'vis…
A 1955 proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, co-authored by John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, and Claude Shannon, is credited with founding th…
The San Jose Sharks' development camp featured 7-foot-1 defenseman Alexander Karmanov, the tallest player ever drafted by the team, who made 6-foot-4 legend Joe Thornton look small. Karmanov, selected…
A guide to programming Lisp on the DEC PDP-1, one of the earliest interactive Lisp environments, was published. The tutorial covers bringing up the system, loading and saving programs, and mixing asse…
The field of artificial intelligence marks its 70th anniversary since being formally established at the 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project. AI has evolved from early neural network concepts by McC…
Lithp.py, a Lisp interpreter for John McCarthy's original Lisp, was released around 2008 by developer Fogus. The interpreter, written in Python 2.6.1+, includes core functions like car, cdr, cons, and…
Aditya Kumarakrishnan, a technical fellow at Walmart Global Tech, presented at a conference on building AI agents, arguing that the industry is in an 'amnesia phase' and repeating mistakes from past c…