Plate I. The Summer Project, 1955–1973

— Research

The Dartmouth summer workshop

Engraving of Dartmouth Hall at Dartmouth College
Engraving after a photograph by Kenneth C. Zirkel, CC BY 4.0 (licence), via Wikimedia Commons. Redrawn and re-inked for iown.si.

About two dozen researchers gather at Dartmouth College over the summer of 1956. The workshop is usually treated as the founding event of AI as a field.

Note on the date: Commonly given as roughly 18 June to 17 August 1956; accounts differ.

Date confidence: medium

Sources

See it in the chronicle