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  Alan Turing writes on on Computer Numbers in which he suggest a universal machine that can do any calculation
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  IBMs auther Samuel develop a checker playing program that can lean from its own mistakes.
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  Turing suggest that machines might someday posses intelligence; he proposes the first test test for possible machine intelligence
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  Dr Norbert Weiner suggest that computer that could think like human would be "both effective, and dangerous"
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  Work begun on DENDRAL, the first expert system
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  The Al language PROLOG (programmed logic) developed
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  MYCIN, an expert system to diagnose bacterial infection is produced
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  Hearsay, a speech understanding program is introduced
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  development with ANNs lead to signficant advance into solvng problems associate with pattern matching
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  Voice and character recognition used in home computer
