A Dartmouth First
Artificial Intelligence
In
1956, John McCarty, an assistant professor of Mathematics at Dartmouth COllege,
planned a summer camp on campus. He wrote a grant proposal for the Rockefeller
Foundation proposing "a two month, 10 man study on artificial intelligence"
( a term he coined) that would explore "every aspect of learning or any other
feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a
machine can simulate it". It is now widely accepted that the science of Artificial
Intelligence was born at that historic conference.