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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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