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    This conference brought together leading experts, including McCarthy, Turing, Minsky, Nathaniel
                      Rochester and Claude  Shannon,  who  all  shared the belief that  thinking  machines could  be
                      created. Their work focused on programming computers to simulate various aspects of human
                      cognition, such as reasoning, learning and language understanding. However, AI progress halted
                      in the 1980s and 1990s due to slow processors, limited memory and high cost. This period was

                      referred to as the AI Winter.

                      Founding Fathers of Artificial Intelligence

                      The founding of Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be traced back to 1956, a year that marked the birth
                      of AI as a formal field of study. Several visionary scientists made groundbreaking contributions
                      that helped shape the early development of AI. Key figures include:

                        John McCarthy:  John McCarthy  coined  the  term  Artificial
                         Intelligence. McCarthy played a pivotal role in organising the
                         1956 Dartmouth Conference, where the field of AI was born. His

                         work in formalising  the  concept  of machine  learning and
                         developing the LISP programming language has had a lasting
                         impact on AI research.

                                                         Marvin Minsky: A leading figure in AI, Minsky co-founded the
                                                          AI Laboratory at MIT and made substantial contributions to
                                                          the development of machine learning and cognitive theories.
                                                          His work on neural networks and the development of early AI

                                                          models helped advance the field significantly.

                        Claude Shannon: He is known as the father of information

                         theory,  Shannon made  key  contributions  to  computational
                         theory  that  laid  the  groundwork  for machine  learning. His
                         research  on how machines  could  process  and manipulate

                         information was instrumental in the development of AI.

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