Dartmouth 1956: the term Artificial Intelligence is born
The 1956 Dartmouth workshop, proposed by John McCarthy and colleagues, coined “artificial intelligence” and launched the field.
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McCulloch and Pitts 1943: the artificial logic neuron
Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts modeled neurons as binary logical units, seeding artificial neural networks.
Turing 1936: machines, computable numbers, and the halting problem
Alan Turing defined an abstract model of computation and proved the undecidability of the halting problem, founding computer science.
Aristotle and syllogistic logic: deep roots of AI
Aristotle’s 4th-century BCE syllogistic logic supplied formal inference rules that later inspired automated reasoning.