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The 1955 Dartmouth Proposal

Era: Early Theory · 1930s–1950s

In 1955, John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, and Claude Shannon used the term "artificial intelligence" in the proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project and outlined a summer 1956 research program.

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Dartmouth College · IBM · Bell Labs

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  1. A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence

    Stanford / John McCarthy archive · Source type: institutional-archive

    The 1955 proposal uses the term "artificial intelligence" and names the four organizers.

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