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Ross Quillian

Ross Quillian was a leading Scientist and Researcher in the field of electronics
and communications during 1960. His work “SYNTHEX” is widely accredited
in the field of AI. In his project, Quillian developed the first semantic web. It
is the map of words and concepts that a computer could use to understand

relations. For example, if you think of Pizza, your brain understands there
are other associated words with it. The words like cheese, Dominos, thin
crust, snacks, toppings, eat, friends, party, hungry, and so on. AI missed this
crucial component before Quillian’s semantic web was introduced. Now, it
has provided necessary map of relational understanding to computers.

Edward Feigenbaum

Edward Feigenbaum is often called the, “Father of Expert Systems”. He
was the joint winner of 1994 ACM Turing Award.

While he was a student, he developed EPAM (Elementary Perceiver and

Memorizer), one of the first computer models of how people learn,
as his Ph.D. project. His project Dendral was the most important to AI
Sciences. It used computer systems to identify and communicate the
presence of diseases when given spectrometer readings of blood samples. This was the first
use of an AI “Expert System”.

Marvin Minsky

Marvin Minsky was an American Cognitive and Computer Scientist.

He wrote the book ‘Perceptrons’ as his ground breaking work on Artificial
Neural Networks. He created several new models of AI systems. He
provided expert advice on several projects including Stanley Kubrick’s,

“A Space Odyssey”.

IBM

IBM company stood as the next pioneer in the field of
Artificial Intelligence as it hit a major milestone with its
development and creation of Deep Blue. It was an AI
system which was dedicated to play chess with an objective
to beat a human chess master using AI. On February 10,
1997, it played against world renowned chess master Garry

Kasparov. For the first time AI won against a human.

As a result of the work of these pioneers, artificial intelligence has come this far and continues
to grow and make our future bright.

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