Dartmouth workshop

The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence was a 1956 summer workshop widely considered to be the founding event of artificial intelligence as a field.

This article is about conferences related to artificial intelligence. For the peace process conferences, see Dartmouth Conference.
Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence
Date1956 (1956)
DurationEight weeks
VenueDartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Organised byJohn McCarthy
ParticipantsMarvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, and Claude Shannon (who proposed the workshop), with others

The project lasted approximately six to eight weeks and was essentially an extended brainstorming session. Eleven mathematicians and scientists originally planned to attend; not all of them attended, but more than ten others came for short times.

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