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The proposal lists Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, and Claude Shannon alongside John McCarthy. Their collaboration brought different research backgrounds into the proposed project.
Who coined the term “artificial intelligence,” and when?
Who wrote the Dartmouth proposal with John McCarthy?
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The term is credited to McCarthy in 1955, when the Dartmouth proposal was written. The proposed summer research gathering took place in 1956.
Yes. Earlier work in mathematical logic, computation, learning, and neural models provided foundations. Dartmouth helped organize an emerging field rather than create all its ideas.
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