Literature/1955/McCarthy

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Author

John McCarthy, Dartmouth College
Marvin Minsky, Harvard University
Nathaniel Rochester, I.B.M. Corporation
Claude Shannon, Bell Telephone Laboratories

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• We propose that a 2 month, 10 man study of artificial intelligence be carried out during the summer of 1956 at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The study is to proceed on the basis of the conjecture that every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it. An attempt will be made to find how to make machines use language, form abstractions and concepts, solve kinds of problems now reserved for humans, and improve themselves. We think that a significant advance can be made in one or more of these problems if a carefully selected group of scientists work on it together for a summer.

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See also

• Literature/2003/Miller ^[+]
• Bruner, Jerome (1990). Acts of Meaning (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures). Harvard University Press. ^[+]
• Literature/1980/Searle ^[+]
• Literature/1979/Dreyfus ^[+]
• Bobrow, Daniel G. & Allan M. Collins eds. (1975). Representation and Understanding: Studies in Cognitive Science (Language, Thought, and Culture). New York, NY: Academic Press. ^[+]
• Literature/1972/Dreyfus ^[+]
• Literature/1965/Dreyfus ^[+]
• McCarthy, John; Marvin Minsky; Nathan Rochester & Claude Shannon (1955). A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence. ^[+]
• Shannon, Claude E. & Warren Weaver (1949). The Mathematical Theory of Communication. University of Illinois Press. ^[+]
• Wiener, Norbert (1948). Cybernetics: or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine. 2nd ed., The MIT Press, 1965. ^[+]
• Bush, Vannevar (1945). "As We May Think." The Atlantic Monthly (July 1945): 101-108. ^[+]

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