Hanover, New Hampshire

Dartmouth College

The field got its name at a summer workshop here, along with its founding over-optimism.

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Key findings

1956
The Dartmouth Summer Research Project
John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, Claude Shannon
A two-month workshop proposing that 'every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it'. It coined the term artificial intelligence.
Why it matters here · It also set the template for the hype cycle: the proposal estimated significant progress in one summer. Read every vendor roadmap in this tracker against it.

Milestones on the 1943 → today timeline credited to this institution.

1956The Dartmouth Summer Research Project — the field gets a nameJohn McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, Claude ShannonFoundations

Research lab · Continuous

Engineering research including applied machine learning and human-centred computing.