Dartmouth workshop
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The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence was a 1956 summer workshop widely considered[1][2][3] to be the founding event of artificial intelligence as a field.[4]
Quick Facts Date, Duration ...
Date | 1956 (1956) |
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Duration | Eight weeks |
Venue | Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire |
Organised by | John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, and Claude Shannon |
Participants | John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, Claude Shannon, and others |
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The project lasted approximately six to eight weeks and was essentially an extended brainstorming session. Eleven mathematicians and scientists originally planned to attend; not all of them attended, but more than ten others came for short times.