Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!batcomputer!llenroc!cornell!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!fornax!fass From: fass@fornax.UUCP (Dan Fass) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: AI genealogy Summary: Book chapter that may be relevant Message-ID: <2254@fornax.UUCP> Date: 8 Mar 91 01:30:57 GMT References: Organization: School of Computing Science, SFU, Burnaby, B.C. Canada Lines: 24 In message , Gabriel Velasco writes that he is working on a semantic network-type database to answer questions about the genealogy of the AI family of researchers. Gabriel and anyone else interested in the genealogy of AI might want to look at James Fleck's article "Development and Establishment in Artificial Intelligence" (in Brian P. Bloomfield, ed., The Question of Artificial Intelligence: Philosophical and Sociological Perspectives. Beckenham, Kent, England: Croom Helm Ltd., pp. 106-164, 1987). Fleck's article traces the social history of AI in the US and UK. The article refers not only to the now-famous 1956 Dartmouth conference, attended by Minsky, McCarthy, Simon, Newell and others, but also mentions an earlier 1952 conference on `Automata Studies' ``organised largely by John McCarthy'' on behalf of Claude Shannon. According to Figure 3.1 on page 118 and the accompanying text, McCarthy, Minsky and Newell all attended Princeton as graduate students; McCarthy worked with Shannon; Minsky was associated with W. McCulloch; and Seymour Papert was either a student of or worked for McCulloch. -------------- Dan Fass fass@cs.sfu.ca