THE FUSE

June 18, 1956 was a memorable day. It was the day the term “artificial intelligence” was coined at the start of the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. That workshop lasted from that day in June until August 17. The workshop was ambitiously aimed so 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.”