Luger's New Springer Chapter Traces AI's Pre-History from Myth to Dartmouth
ArtificialOther · x · 2026-11-07
Chapter 1 of George F. Luger's Artificial Intelligence: Principles and Practice (Springer) traces the ideas behind AI: from the mythology of humans usurping the gods' powers in Aeschylus' Prometheus, through the 17th–20th century mathematics and engineering that founded computing, Turing's 1950 test in Mind, to the 1956 Dartmouth Summer Workshop where the field got its name and its first research agendas.
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