Donald Michie

work in artificial intelligence and cryptography

• worked on breaking German codes during World War II at Bletchley Park
• researched artificial intelligence and the theory of machine learning
• founded the Machine Intelligence Workshops which later became the International Conferences on Machine Intelligence

Donald Michie was a British researcher in artificial intelligence and cryptography, who made significant contributions to both fields during and after World War II.

Milestones

• 1973
  The First AI Winter Policy

  The Report That Froze a Field

  A devastating government review by mathematician James Lighthill declared most AI research a failure, triggering funding cuts that plunged the field into its first winter.

  1973

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