Vortrag im Rahmen des Kolloquiums Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of Science.

Abstract: When did the term Artificial Intelligence (AI) come into the world? What did it mean and how has it developed since its emergence in the mid-20th century? AI was coined as a term for a field of research in 1955, when the young mathematician John McCarthy at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, planned a “Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence”, which he, together with Claude E. Shannon, Marvin Minsky and Nathaniel Rochester, proposed to the Rockefeller Foundation to fund. Having previously failed with his proposal of „Intelligent Machines“ as the title of the volume he and Shannon then published as „Automata Studies“, McCarthy then pushed through the use of the word „intelligence“.

In West Germany, Scientific research in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) began in the 1970s. It was then that young scientists from various scientific disciplines became interested in US AI. The „IGGI“ project uses not only archival sources but also oral interviews with more than 42 German AI researchers of the time to explore these beginnings of AI research in the Federal Republic of Germany. This presentation gives a short insight into the work and the results on this important project.

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