udy at a conference at Dartmouth College in the summer of 1956", Jeffrey Epstein points out. The attendees, including John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Allen Newell and Herbert Simon all became AI pioneers in the decades to come. Together with their students, they wrote programs that were astonishing: computers

first computational model of human cognition and also the first artificial-intelligence system, was developed by Herbert Simon, of Carnegie Tech, and Allen Newell, of the RAND Corporation. Logic Theorist automatically produced mathematical proofs by emulating the strategies used by human mathematicians. The ch

first computational model of human cognition and also the first artificial-intelligence system, was developed by Herbert Simon, of Carnegie Tech, and Allen Newell, of the RAND Corporation. Logic Theorist automatically produced mathematical proofs by emulating the strategies used by human mathematicians. The ch