A Brief History of Technology
A History Research Project
by Ethan Z. Ngui, Year 8, Jesselton International School.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
According to livescience.com, the beginnings of modern AI can be traced back to many eminent philosophers' attempts to describe human thinking as a symbolic system. But the field of AI was not formally founded until 1956, at a conference at Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire, where the term "artificial intelligence" was coined.
Alan Turing
The Founder of AI
Born June 23, 1912, London, England — died June 7, 1954, Wilmslow, Cheshire
Alan Turing was a mathematician, computer scientist, cryptanalyst, logician, and theoretical biologist. Often referred to as the founder of AI, Turing made major contributions to the foundation of computer science and Artificial Intelligence.
His Turing machine gave the concept using the algorithm and computation. The Turing award is the highest recognition in computer science and is named after him.
John McCarthy
The Father of AI
Born 1927, Boston, Massachusetts - died in 2011.
John McCarthy was an Engineer, Computer Scientist, Mathematician, Cognitive Scientist. Often referred to as the father of AI, John McCarthy coined the term "Artificial Intelligence (AI)." The term was made and coined in a summer workshop at Dartmouth College, which many computer thinkers attended. John McCarthy managed to obtain the ACM Turing Award, the Kyoto prize, and the National medal of Science.
Dartmouth Conference
In 1956, John McCarthy held a meeting called the Dartmouth Conference. John McCarthy stated the purpose of this conference as: "To proceed on the basis of the conjecture that every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it."