A.I. Salon Series: The Flourishing of the Human Condition

Hart Cluett Museum, Troy5 dates

In the summer of 1956, a group of academics, scientists, and engineers gathered for two months on the Dartmouth College campus at Hanover, New Hampshire to, in the words of attendee Dr. John McCarthy,“concentrate on a problem of devising a way of programming a calculator to formconceptsand to formgeneralizations…”The four organizers, Claude Shannon, John McCarthy, Nathaniel Rochester, and Marvin Minsky, were titans in their fields of Computer Science, Information Theory, and Cybernetics. What…