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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 94. Chapters: Alan Turing, Herbert Simon, Seymour Papert, Lisp machine, ELIZA, Warren Sturgis McCulloch, SHRDLU, Gerald Jay Sussman, Planner, Turing test, Timeline of artificial intelligence, AI winter, Ray Solomonoff, AI@50, Computing Machinery and Intelligence, History of machine translation, Darwin among the Machines, History of artificial life, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, John McCarthy, Fifth generation computer, Dendral, Allen Newell, Logic Theorist, William Grey Walter, Information Processing Language, Roger Schank, Freddy II, David Marr, Mycin, STRIPS, Donald Michie, Walter Pitts, Louis Hodes, Arthur Samuel, History of natural language processing, David Rumelhart, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, Lawrence J. Fogel, Nathaniel Rochester, William James Lectures, Frank Rosenblatt, Frame, Strategic Computing Initiative, Knowledge Sharing Effort, John Joseph Hopfield, Edward Feigenbaum, Shakey the robot, Dartmouth Conferences, ALPAC, Phyllis Fox, General Problem Solver, Oliver Selfridge, PARRY, Xcon, Patrick Winston, Darwin machine, Ratio Club, Lighthill report, David Luckham, FreeHAL, AI Memo, Advice taker, Johns Hopkins Beast, Cliff Shaw, Daniel G. Bobrow, Paul Werbos, Scripts, Pandemonium Architecture, Alvey, STUDENT, Blocks world, LIFER/LADDER, SNARC. Excerpt: The history of artificial intelligence is rooted in antiquity, with myths, stories and rumors of artificial beings endowed with intelligence or consciousness by master craftsmen; as Pamela McCorduck writes, AI began with "an ancient wish to forge the gods." The seeds of modern AI were planted by classical philosophers who attempted to describe the process of human thinking as the mechanical manipulation of symbols. This work culminated in the invention of the programmable digital computer in the 1940s, a machine bas...
