April 21, 2026; 2:00 -3:00pm, GDC 6.302 #ai #aihistory #digitalhumanities #utaustin #fai
https://ai.utexas.edu/events/2026-04-21/fai-talk-histories-artificial-intelligence
FAI Talk: Histories of Artificial Intelligence | Texas AI
Abstract: When did the term Artificial Intelligence (AI) come into the world? What did it mean and how has it developed since its emergence in the mid-20th century? AI was coined as a term for a field of research in 1955, when the young mathematician John McCarthy at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, planned a “Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence”, which he, together with Claude E. Shannon, Marvin Minsky and Nathaniel Rochester, proposed to the Rockefeller Foundation to fund.

