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Artificial Intelligence can be dated back to 1956, when four men, John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Allen Newell, and Herbert Simon met at Dartmouth College for a conference.  At this conference, the field of Artificial Intelligence research was born.  McCarthy, regarded … Continue reading →

International Business Machines, or IBM, is known for their ability to push the limits between technology and human intelligence.  An example of this was Deep Blue, the chess playing supercomputer who beat the world’s best chess master.  More recently, IBM … Continue reading →

IBM’s Watson is an impressive piece of machinery, but it had some prevalent predecessors that were equally as historic. As one may very well be aware, IBM was in the business of building computers long before Watson, and the company … Continue reading →

The Darpa Grand Challenge is a very significant event because of the advanced technologies that go into the automobiles. It is a prize competition between driverless or automated vehicles that happens every year. It was funded by the Defense Advanced … Continue reading →

Here is the WordPress Page to Team 12’s DSS Project “The Evolution of Watson.”

1991., & Project, t. i. (n.d.). History of artificial intelligence – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved April 19, 2011, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_artificial_intelligen Artificial intelligence – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (n.d.). Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved April 19, … Continue reading →