Dartmouth

The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, held in the summer of 1956 at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, is widely regarded as the founding event of artificial intelligence as a field of research. It began with a proposal dated August 31, 1955, written by John McCarthy, then an assistant professor of mathematics at Dartmouth; Marvin Minsky, then at Harvard; Nathaniel Rochester, manager of information research at IBM; and Claude Shannon of Bell Telephone Laboratories. The proposal asked for a two month, ten person study, and it is the first document to use…