The Intelligence Age: A History of AI

From ancient automata to modern neural networks — the story of thinking machines

75 Milestones
700+ Years of history
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Claude Shannon

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Claude Shannon

Information theory

  • Laid the mathematical foundations for information theory.
  • Developed the concept of digital circuit design.
  • Contributed to the field of cryptography.

Claude Shannon was an American mathematician and electrical engineer who is best known for his work on information theory and his foundational contributions to digital circuit design.

Milestones

  • The Mechanical Mouse That Learned Its Way
    The Theoretical Foundations Engineering
    The Mechanical Mouse That Learned Its Way

    Claude Shannon built an electromechanical mouse that could navigate a maze through trial and error, becoming one of the first physical demonstrations of machine learning.

    1950
  • The Summer That Named a Revolution
    The Dawn of AI Research
    The Summer That Named a Revolution

    A small workshop at Dartmouth College coined the term 'artificial intelligence' and launched an entire field of research.

    1956
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