AI@50

AI@50, formally known as the "Dartmouth Artificial Intelligence Conference: The Next Fifty Years" (July 13–15, 2006), was a conference organized by James Moor, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Dartmouth workshop which effectively inaugurated the history of artificial intelligence. Five of the original ten attendees were present: Marvin Minsky, Ray Solomonoff, Oliver Selfridge, Trenchard More, and John McCarthy.

While sponsored by Dartmouth College, General Electric, and the Frederick Whittemore Foundation, a $200,000 grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) called for a report of the proceedings that would:

• Analyze progress on AI's original challenges during the first 50 years, and assess whether the challenges were "easier" or "harder" than originally thought and why
• Document what the AI@50 participants believe are the major research and development challenges facing this field over the next 50 years, and identify what breakthroughs will be needed to meet those challenges
• Relate those challenges and breakthroughs against developments and trends in other areas such as control theory, signal processing, information theory, statistics, and optimization theory.

A summary report by the conference director, James Moor, was published in AI Magazine.

• James Moor, conference Director, Introduction
• Carol Folt and Barry Scherr, Welcome
• Carey Heckman, Tonypandy and the Origins of Science

• John McCarthy, What Was Expected, What We Did, and AI Today
• Marvin Minsky, The Emotion Machine

• Ron Brachman and Hector Levesque, A Large Part of Human Thought
• David Mumford, What is the Right Model for 'Thought'?
• Stuart Russell, The Approach of Modern AI

• Geoffrey Hinton & Simon Osindero, From Pandemonium to Graphical Models and Back Again
• Rick Granger, From Brain Circuits to Mind Manufacture

• Oliver Selfridge, Learning and Education for Software: New Approaches in Machine Learning
• Ray Solomonoff, Machine Learning — Past and Future
• Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Learning to be Intelligent
• Peter Norvig, Web Search as a Product of and Catalyst for AI

• Rod Brooks, Intelligence and Bodies
• Nils Nilsson, Routes to the Summit
• Eric Horvitz, In Pursuit of Artificial Intelligence: Reflections on Challenges and Trajectories

• Eric Grimson, Intelligent Medical Image Analysis: Computer Assisted Surgery and Disease Monitoring
• Takeo Kanade, Artificial Intelligence Vision: Progress and Non-Progress
• Terry Sejnowski, A Critique of Pure Vision

• Alan Bundy, Constructing, Selecting and Repairing Representations of Knowledge
• Edwina Rissland, The Exquisite Centrality of Examples
• Bart Selman, The Challenge and Promise of Automated Reasoning

• Trenchard More The Birth of Array Theory and Nial
• Eugene Charniak, Why Natural Language Processing is Now Statistical Natural Language Processing
• Pat Langley, Intelligent Behavior in Humans and Machines

• Ray Kurzweil, Why We Can Be Confident of Turing Test Capability Within a Quarter Century
• George Cybenko, The Future Trajectory of AI
• Charles J. Holland, DARPA's Perspective

• Jonathan Schaeffer, Games as a Test-bed for Artificial Intelligence Research"
• Danny Kopec, Chess and AI
• Shay Bushinsky, Principle Positions in Deep Junior's Development

• Daniela Rus, Making Bodies Smart
• Sherry Turkle, From Building Intelligences to Nurturing Sensibilities

• J. Storrs Hall, Self-improving AI: An Analysis
• Selmer Bringsjord, The Logicist Manifesto
• Vincent C. Müller, Is There a Future for AI Without Representation?
• Kristinn R. Thórisson, Integrated A.I. Systems

• Eric Steinhart, Survival as a Digital Ghost
• Colin T. A. Schmidt, Did You Leave That 'Contraption' Alone With Your Little Sister?
• Michael Anderson & Susan Leigh Anderson, The Status of Machine Ethics
• Marcello Guarini, Computation, Coherence, and Ethical Reasoning

• Dartmouth Artificial Intelligence Conference: The Next Fifty Years. Official conference Web site.
• James Moor. The Dartmouth College Artificial Intelligence Conference: The Next Fifty Years. AI Magazine 27:4 [2006]: 87–91. ISSN 0738-4602. Official conference report, with photos; freely available online PDF.
• Peter Norvig, Pictures from AI@50. Photographs of conference presenters.