Dartmouth workshop: AI is born
A Dartmouth seminar names the science of thinking machines
In summer 1956 John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky and others gathered at Dartmouth College to explore thinking machines. The term 'artificial intelligence', coined by McCarthy for the proposal, gave the new field its name.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1939–1945 World War II — 17 years earlier
- 1947–1991 Cold War — 9 years earlier
- 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights — 8 years earlier
- 1949 Founding of NATO — 7 years earlier
- 1980 Smallpox declared eradicated — 24 years later
Europe
- 1933 Hitler comes to power — 23 years earlier
- 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War — 20 years earlier
- 1941–1945 The Holocaust — 15 years earlier
- 1953 Discovery of the DNA double helix — 3 years earlier
- 1957 Treaty of Rome — 1 year later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1941–1944 Siege of Leningrad — 15 years earlier
- 1942–1943 Battle of Stalingrad — 14 years earlier
- 1945 German surrender and Victory Day — 11 years earlier
- 1957 Sputnik 1, the first satellite — 1 year later
- 1961 Gagarin's flight — 5 years later
Middle East
- 1932 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia proclaimed — 24 years earlier
- 1948 Founding of the State of Israel — 8 years earlier
- 1979 Iranian Revolution — 23 years later
- 1980–1988 Iran–Iraq War — 24 years later
Africa
- 1956 The Suez Crisis — same year
- 1958 Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart — 2 years later
- 1960 Year of Africa — 4 years later
- 1963 The Organisation of African Unity is founded — 7 years later
- 1967 First human heart transplant — 11 years later
Asia
- 1945 Atomic bombing of Hiroshima — 11 years earlier
- 1953 First ascent of Everest — 3 years earlier
- 1955–1975 Vietnam War — 1 year earlier
- 1955 Bandung Conference — 1 year earlier
- 1975–1979 The Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian genocide — 19 years later
Oceania
- 1936 Death of the last thylacine — 20 years earlier
- 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor — 15 years earlier
- 1942 The Battle of Midway — 14 years earlier
- 1954 The Castle Bravo test at Bikini — 2 years earlier
- 1959 The Antarctic Treaty — 3 years later
Alive at the time
- Winston Churchill (aged 82)
- Pablo Picasso (aged 75)
- Charlie Chaplin (aged 67)
- Mao Zedong (aged 63)
- Nelson Mandela (aged 38)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (aged 27)
- Neil Armstrong (aged 26)
- Yuri Gagarin (aged 22)
- Harry S. Truman (aged 72)
- Anna Akhmatova (aged 67)