# AI@50

AI@50, formally known as the "Dartmouth Artificial Intelligence Conference: The Next Fifty Years" (July 13–15, 2006), was a conference organized by James Moor, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Dartmouth workshop which effectively inaugurated the history of artificial intelligence. Five of the original ten attendees were present: Marvin Minsky, Ray Solomonoff, Oliver Selfridge, Trenchard More, and John McCarthy.
While sponsored by Dartmouth College, General Electric, and the Frederick Whittemore Foundation, a $200,000 grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) called for a report of the proceedings that would:
* Analyze progress on AI's original challenges during the first 50 years, and assess whether the challenges were "easier" or "harder" than originally thought and why
* Document what the AI@50 participants believe are the major research and development challenges facing this field over the next 50 years, and identify what breakthroughs will be needed to meet those challenges
* Relate those challenges and breakthroughs against developments and trends in other areas such as control theory, signal processing, information theory, statistics, and optimization theory.
A summary report by the conference director, James Moor, was published in AI Magazine.

## Conference Program and links to published papers

* James Moor, conference Director, Introduction
* Carol Folt and Barry Scherr, Welcome
* Carey Heckman, Tonypandy and the Origins of Science

### AI: Past, Present, Future

* John McCarthy, What Was Expected, What We Did, and AI Today
* Marvin Minsky, The Emotion Machine

### The Future Model of Thinking

* Ron Brachman and Hector Levesque, A Large Part of Human Thought
* David Mumford, What is the Right Model for 'Thought'?
* Stuart Russell, The Approach of Modern AI

### The Future of Network Models

* Geoffrey Hinton & Simon Osindero, From Pandemonium to Graphical Models and Back Again
* Rick Granger, From Brain Circuits to Mind Manufacture

### The Future of Learning & Search

* Oliver Selfridge, Learning and Education for Software: New Approaches in Machine Learning
* Ray Solomonoff, Machine Learning — Past and Future
* Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Learning to be Intelligent
* Peter Norvig, Web Search as a Product of and Catalyst for AI

### The Future of AI

* Rod Brooks, Intelligence and Bodies
* Nils Nilsson, Routes to the Summit
* Eric Horvitz, In Pursuit of Artificial Intelligence: Reflections on Challenges and Trajectories

### The Future of Vision

* Eric Grimson, Intelligent Medical Image Analysis: Computer Assisted Surgery and Disease Monitoring
* Takeo Kanade, Artificial Intelligence Vision: Progress and Non-Progress
* Terry Sejnowski, A Critique of Pure Vision

### The Future of Reasoning

* Alan Bundy, Constructing, Selecting and Repairing Representations of Knowledge
* Edwina Rissland, The Exquisite Centrality of Examples
* Bart Selman, The Challenge and Promise of Automated Reasoning

### The Future of Language and Cognition

* Trenchard More The Birth of Array Theory and Nial
* Eugene Charniak, Why Natural Language Processing is Now Statistical Natural Language Processing
* Pat Langley, Intelligent Behavior in Humans and Machines

### The Future of the Future

* Ray Kurzweil, Why We Can Be Confident of Turing Test Capability Within a Quarter Century
* George Cybenko, The Future Trajectory of AI
* Charles J. Holland, DARPA's Perspective

### AI and Games

* Jonathan Schaeffer, Games as a Test-bed for Artificial Intelligence Research"
* Danny Kopec, Chess and AI
* Shay Bushinsky, Principle Positions in Deep Junior's Development

### Future Interactions with Intelligent Machines

* Daniela Rus, Making Bodies Smart
* Sherry Turkle, From Building Intelligences to Nurturing Sensibilities

### Selected Submitted Papers: Future Strategies for AI

* J. Storrs Hall, Self-improving AI: An Analysis
* Selmer Bringsjord, The Logicist Manifesto
* Vincent C. Müller, Is There a Future for AI Without Representation?
* Kristinn R. Thórisson, Integrated A.I. Systems

### Selected Submitted Papers: Future Possibilities for AI

* Eric Steinhart, Survival as a Digital Ghost
* Colin T. A. Schmidt, Did You Leave That 'Contraption' Alone With Your Little Sister?
* Michael Anderson & Susan Leigh Anderson, The Status of Machine Ethics
* Marcello Guarini, Computation, Coherence, and Ethical Reasoning