1973–1979 · 3 key events · 13 related people, organisations and concepts
First AI winter
Results fall short of promises and funding contracts.
1974
DARPA cuts academic AI funding
In the early 1970s DARPA sharply cut back support for undirected academic AI research and redirected money toward mission-oriented military projects. Together with the Lighthill report, the cuts are counted among the episodes that led into the first AI winter.
1975
Allen Newell and Herbert Simon receive the 1975 ACM Turing Award
In 1975 the ACM gave its A.M. Turing Award jointly to Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon, citing two decades of work that helped establish artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition and list processing.
1979
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence is founded
Founded in 1979, AAAI is a nonprofit scientific society for artificial intelligence that runs conferences and workshops, publishes a quarterly magazine and conference proceedings, and promotes safe, responsible AI research and public understanding.
