From Cave Paintings to the Internet A Chronological and Thematic Database on the History of Information and Media Artificial Intelligence Outline

Descartes Discusses the Idea of an Artificial Language
(1629)

Bayes's Theorem
(1763)

The Chess-Playing Turk
(1769)

Poe Writes Maelzel's Chess Player
(April 1836)

The Minimax Theorem
(1928)

Turing and von Neumann Discuss What Will Eventually be Called "Artificial Intelligence"
(1937)

The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior
(1944)

"Intelligent Machinery"
(July – August 1948)

The Turing Test
(1950)

The First Technical Paper on Computer Chess
(March 1950)

Coining the Term, Artificial Intelligence
(August 31, 1955)

The First Artificial Intelligence Program
(July 1956)

Chomsky's Hierarchy of Syntactic Forms
(September 1956)

The First Paper on Machine Learning
(1957)

Game Tree Pruning
(October 1958)

The Perceptron
(November 1958)

First International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence
(November 24 – November 27, 1958)

Machines Can Learn from Past Errors
(July 1959)

Early Expert Systems for Medical Diagnosis
(July 3, 1959)

LISP
(1960)

"Dial F for Frankenstein"
(1961)

Origins of Automated Facial Recognition
(1964 – 1966)

The Beginning of Algorithmic Information Theory
(March – June 1964)

Origin of the Concept of Technological Singularity
(1965)

The Resolution Principle
(January 1965)

"2001: A Space Odyssey"
(1968)

The Architecture Machine
(1970)

AAAI
(1979)

WordNet
(1985)

Kasparov Defeats 32 Different Chess Computers
(1985)

Development of Neural Networks
(1993)

The Singularity
(January 1993)

A Computer Checkers Program Defeats the Human World Checkers Champion
(1994)

IBM Deep Blue Defeats Gary Kasparov
(May 11, 1997)

Using Neural Networks for Word Sense Disambiguation
(1998)

Conflicts between Androids and Men
(2001)

Checkers is Solved.
(April 29, 2007)

Using Automation to Find "Fundamental Laws of Nature"
(April 3, 2009)

Robot Scientist becomes the First Machine to Discover New Scientific Knowledge
(April 3, 2009)

IBM's Watson Question Answering System Challenges Humans at Jeopardy
(April 27, 2009)

Wolfram/Alpha
(May 16, 2009)

Algorithm to Decipher Ancient Texts
(September 2, 2009)

Bing Will Encorporate Wolfram Alpha Search Information
(November 12, 2009)

"The World's First Full-Size Robotic Girlfriend"
(January 9, 2010)