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artificial intelligence devellopments
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alan turing writes on computable numbers in which he suggests a universal machine that can do any calculation
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Arthur Samuels creates a checkers playing program that learns from its own mistakes
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Norbert Weiner writes the book cybernetics
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Turing suggests that machines might some day possess inteligence
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W.grey.walters makes a machine that moves untill batteries are low then seeks a energy sourece or power outlet and recharges itself
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John McCarthy coins the term artificial intelligence
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LISP the most commonly used AI lanuage is introduced by McCarthy
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Norbert thinks that computers that think like humans would be both effective but dangerous
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Samuel beaten by his checkers program
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Frank rosenbelt proves that perceptrons and a nerual network can be programmed
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Dr weizenbaum of MIT develops ELIZA
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Fuzzy logic introduced by Zadeh
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work began on DENDRAL
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Minsky and Papert prove perceptrons cannot be used as a basis for a general computer
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shakey, a radio linked, mobile robot with built in tv and rage finder is developed
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Terry winograd from MIT develops SHRUDLU
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the AI lanuage PROLOG developed
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MYCIN developed
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HEARSAY introduced
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work starts on shear magic
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BGK 9.8 beats human backgammon world champ
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developments in knowledge engineering and inference systems respark the interest in the potential of AI
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Japan announces the $M400 project
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Q and A introduced
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developments with ANN's lead to significant advances in problem solving
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us millitary use ai based tech
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voice and character recognition used in home computers
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ALICE wins Loebner prize
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OWL Web Ontology Language W3C Recommendation
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Recommendation technology based on tracking web activity or media usage brings AI to marketing. See TiVo Suggestions
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Blue Brain is born, a project to simulate the brain at molecular detail
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one of the world's oldest scientific journals, puts out a special issue on using AI to understand biological intelligence, titled Models of Natural Action Selection
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Checkers is solved by a team of researchers at the University of Alberta