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July 13, 1956
On July 13, 1956, the Dartmouth workshop is the first conference on artificial intelligence. César, Anne Glover, Beatrice Ask would arrive in the same year.
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Featured · July 13, 1956
The Dartmouth workshop is the first conference on artificial intelligence.
The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence was a 1956 summer workshop widely considered to be the founding event of artificial intelligence as a field. The workshop has been referred to as "the Constitutional Convention of AI". The project's four organizers, Claude Shannon, John McCarthy, Nathaniel Rochester and Marvin Minsky, are considered some of the "founding fathers" of AI.
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1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1956th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 956th year of the 2nd millennium, the 56th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1950s decade.
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1956 The Dartmouth workshop is the first conference on artificial intelligence. 1956 scientific conference on artificial intelligence
The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence was a 1956 summer workshop widely considered to be the founding event of artificial intelligence as a field. The workshop has been referred to as "the Constitutional Convention of AI". The project's four organizers, Claude Shannon, John McCarthy, Nathaniel Rochester and Marvin Minsky, are considered some of the "founding fathers" of AI.
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Other moments from 1956
- April 19 Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.
- April 26 SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey, for Houston, Texas.
- April 3 Hudsonville–Standale tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado.
- April 30 Former Vice President and Democratic Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia.
- April 5 Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro declares himself at war with Cuban President Fulgencio Batista.
- April 7 Francoist Spain agrees to surrender its protectorate in Morocco.
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