W3C launches the Web Ontology Working Group
On 1 November 2001 the W3C started the Web Ontology Working Group, which developed OWL and saw it become a W3C Recommendation on 10 February 2004, before closing in May 2004 having completed its charter.
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John McCarthy receives the 1988 Kyoto Prize
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.
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.
John McCarthy receives the 1971 ACM Turing Award
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.
Marvin Minsky receives the 1969 ACM Turing Award
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.
The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence takes place
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.
Dartmouth AI summer research proposal is written
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."