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On 19 July 2007 the University of Alberta announced that its Chinook program had solved checkers: with perfect play by both sides the game is always a draw, and the program can be drawn but never beaten.
AI@50 was a 2006 conference at Dartmouth College marking fifty years since the 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project, where the term "artificial intelligence" had been coined. Several of the original participants returned for three days of talks.
In May 1997 IBM's Deep Blue beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov 3.5–2.5 in a six-game match in New York, the first time a computer defeated a reigning world champion under standard tournament time controls.
In February 1996 IBM's Deep Blue played reigning world champion Garry Kasparov in a six-game match in Philadelphia, winning game one before Kasparov took the match 4–2.
In 1994 the ACM gave its A.M. Turing Award jointly to Edward Feigenbaum, who built the pioneering expert systems, and Raj Reddy, whose Hearsay I was the first system able to recognize continuous speech.
In 1988 the Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology went to John McCarthy, honoured for founding artificial intelligence and for inventing LISP, the programming language built for symbol manipulation rather than numerical calculation.
Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry launched a ten-year national project in 1982 to build a logic-programming, massively parallel computer for artificial intelligence. It produced working parallel inference machines but ended in commercial failure.
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.
In 1971 the ACM gave John McCarthy the A.M. Turing Award, honouring the researcher who named artificial intelligence, co-founded MIT's AI Project and created the LISP language.
In 1969 the ACM named Marvin Minsky a Turing Award laureate for his central role in creating and shaping artificial intelligence. He had co-founded MIT's AI laboratory and written an early paper that put symbol manipulation at the centre of the field.
In the summer of 1956 a small group of researchers gathered at Dartmouth College for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, widely regarded as the founding event of AI as a research field.
In the summer of 1956, at the conference that gave artificial intelligence its name, Newell and Simon presented Logic Theorist, a program that proved theorems from Principia Mathematica. The reception was lukewarm.
In August 1955 four researchers proposed a summer study at Dartmouth College on making machines simulate learning and other features of intelligence. The document is credited with introducing the term "artificial intelligence."
