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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Edward Feigenbaum

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Edward Feigenbaum

pioneer in artificial intelligence

  • won the 1994 ACM Turing Award with Raj Reddy
  • work on natural language understanding and expert systems
  • contributed to the development of the MYCIN expert system

Edward Albert Feigenbaum, born on January 20, 1936, is an American computer scientist and a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence, recognized with the 1994 ACM Turing Award for his work with Raj Reddy.

Milestones

  • 1965
    The Dawn of AI Research
    The Program That Thought Like a Chemist

    Stanford researchers built the first expert system, proving machines could rival specialists by encoding scientific knowledge as rules.

    1965
  • The Billion-Dollar Gamble That Spooked the West
    Expert Systems and the Knowledge Boom Policy
    The Billion-Dollar Gamble That Spooked the West

    Japan launched a massive government-funded project to build thinking machines, triggering a global AI arms race that reshaped research funding worldwide.

    1982
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