The Dartmouth Workshop was a meeting of about a dozen researchers in 1956 at Dartmouth College. It was here that the term 'Artificial Intelligence' was coined, and hence is the official starting point for the discipline, although, the roots cna be traced before this, not least amongst the attendees.
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Also known as Dartmouth Conference
Links:
- spectrum.ieee.org: The Meeting of the Minds That Launched AI
- Wikipedia: Dartmouth workshop
- spectrum.ieee.org: Participants at the 1956 Dartmouth AI workshop (from IEEE Spectrum article, Solomonoff, 2023)