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Dartmouth Conference

Era: Birth of AI · 1950s–1970s

The summer 1956 Dartmouth workshop helped establish "artificial intelligence" and its research agenda as the identity of an emerging academic field; the term had already appeared in the project’s 1955 proposal.

John McCarthy (1927–2011)

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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 proposal documents the project name, organizers, and 1956 summer workshop plan.

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