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Academia

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

  1. 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.

On the history timeline

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

What to follow

Thayer School of Engineering

Research lab · Continuous

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

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Tomorrow. (2026). Dartmouth College — key findings and research feeds [Research tracker entry]. AlienSquad. Retrieved 2026-09-17, from https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/academia/dartmouth
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@misc{tomorrow-academia-dartmouth,
  author       = {{Tomorrow}},
  title        = {Dartmouth College — key findings and research feeds},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {AlienSquad},
  howpublished = {\url{https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/academia/dartmouth}},
  note         = {Accessed: 2026-09-17}
}