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- John McCarthy: The Man Who Named AI
He organised the Dartmouth Conference, coined the term artificial intelligence, invented LISP, and founded the Stanford AI Laboratory. For half a century he was the field's most important institution-builder and its most stubborn defender of symbolic reasoning. The complicated legacy of the man who gave AI its name and its mission.
- The Summer That Named AI
The 1956 Dartmouth Conference in full narrative detail — who was in the room, what they argued about in the evenings, what they agreed on, what they were spectacularly wrong about, and how a single summer's conversation gave a field its name, its mission, and the overconfidence that would eventually send it into its first winter.