1980 Lisp Lisp Machines developed and marketed.
expert First expert system shells and commercial applications
system
shells
HEARSAY-II speech understanding system.Lee Erman, Rick Hayes-Roth, Victor Lesser and Raj
Reddy published the first description of the blackboard model, as the framework
for the HEARSAY-II speech understanding system.
1st National held st Stanford
Conference
of the American
Association of
Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
chess computer challenges chess master
program
Desert Storm First AI war
1981 Danny Hillis designs the connection machine, a massively parallel architecture that brings new power
to AI, and to computation in general. (Later founds Thinking Macines, Inc.)
1982 Blade Runner adapted from ";Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep"
1983 John Laird & , working with Allen Newell, complete CMU dissertations on SOAR.
Paul
Rosenbloom
Interval James Allen invents the first widely used formalization of temporal events.
Calculus
1984 Transformers robot toys launched
Mid Neural Networks become widely used with the Backpropagation algorithm (first described by Werbos in 1974).
80's
Aaron Harold Cohen. The autonomous drawing program, is demonstrated at the AAAI National
Conference (based on more than a decade of work, and with subsequent work showing major
developments).
1987 The Society of Marvin Minskya theoretical description of the mind as a collection of cooperating agents.
Mind
Robocop Part man, part machine, all cop, a cyborg police officer
Star Trek TNG Lt Commander Data, an android striving to become more human
1989 ALVINN Dean Pomerleau at CMU ALVINN (An Autonomous Land Vehicle in a Neural Network),
which grew into the system that drove a car coast-to-coast under computer control for all
but about 50 of the 2850 miles.
Sim City computer game created by Will Wright, introduces virtual people
1990's Major advances in all areas of AI, with significant demonstrations in machine learning,
intelligent tutoring, case-based reasoning, multi-agent planning, scheduling, uncertain
reasoning, data mining, natural language understanding and translation, vision, virtual
reality, games, and other topics.
COG Project Rod Brooks at MIT, with numerous collaborators, makes significant progress in building a
humanoid robot
Early TD-Gammon, a backgammon program written by Gerry Tesaurodemonstrates that reinforcement learning
90's is powerful enough to create a championship-level game-playing program by competing
favorably with world-class players.
1991 T-1000 mimetic polyalloy - .Liquid Metal android
Terminator 2:
Judgement Day
1996 P-2 Honda's first humanoid robot to walk autonomously
1997 Pathfinder arrives on Mars
Soujourner solar powered roversends images, analyses of Martian rocks and weather data
The Deep Blue chess program beats the current world chess champion, Garry Kasparov, in a widely
followed match.
1st official soccer match featuring table-top matches with 40 teams of interacting robots and over
Robo-Cup 5000 spectators.
Late Web crawlers and other AI-based information extraction programs become essential in
90's widespread use of the world-wide- web.
Intelligent Room and Emotional Agents at MIT's AI Lab. the Oxygen Architecture,
Demonstration of an Intelligent Room and Emotional Agents at MIT's AI Lab. Initiation
of work on the Oxygen Architecture, which connects mobile and stationary computers i
n an adaptive network.
1998 WABIAN Tsukuba Science City, Japanrobot that recognizes seven human gestures debuts at the
1st International Workshop of Humanoid and Friendly Robots
Aibo Sony1st commercial robot dog
Furby mechanical creature that can learn 1000 phrases
EMAS Dr. David Gow1st bionic arm, called the Edinburgh Modular Arm System (EMAS)
1999 The Iron Warner Bros. freindship between a boy and a mettalic creature from outer space
Giant
2000 Interactive robot pets (a.k.a. "smart toys") become commercially available, realizing
the vision of the 18th cen. novelty toy makers.
KISMET Cynthia Breazeal at MIT publishes her dissertation on Sociable Machines, describing
KISMET, a robot with a face that expresses emotions.
The Nomad robot explores remote regions of Antarctica looking for meteorite samples.
2001 A.I., the Warner BrosMovie by Steven Spielberg about the 1st robot created to love
Movi