Artificial Intelligence/Chronology

Artificial intelligence over the years

The field of artificial intelligence has growth over a period of more than sixty years and machine still can't think as effectively as humans. The table below shows some significant milestones that occured along the way. Due to the nature of the book, detailed information about each interval might serve the pages of yet another book on the WikiBook shelf regarding the history of AI.

Table 1: Chronological history of Artificial Intelligence

Year	Event/Milestone
1943	Warren Sturgis McCulloch and Walter Pitts propose the model of a neuron in a human and animal brain.
1945	George Pólya coins the term heuristics in his book about problem solving called "How to Solve It".
1948	Norbert Weiner introduces his feedback theory based on the works of McCulloch and Pitts, resulting in the creations of the field of Cybernetics.
1949	Donald Olding Hebb suggests creation of neural networks, network of artificial neurons that can think.
1953	Marvin Minsky invents and patents the first confocal scanning microscope, a device used to image interconnections of neurons in much greater detail than the Golgi staining process
1956	The Dartmouth Conference is organized by John McCarthy, at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire and attracts the first ever AI enthusiasts. Artificial Intelligence was formely recognized as a field of knowledge. George Miller writes an essay on short-term memory entitled "The Magical Number Seven..." Herbert Simon and Allen Newell create the first AI program called the Logic Theorist.