Dartmouth workshop
| Date | 1956 |
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| Duration | Eight weeks |
| Venue | Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire |
| Organised by | John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, and Claude Shannon |
| Participants | John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, Claude Shannon, and others |
The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence was a 1956 summer workshop widely considered to be the founding event of artificial intelligence as a field. The workshop has been referred to as "the Constitutional Convention of AI". The project's four organizers, those being Claude Shannon, John McCarthy, Nathaniel Rochester and Marvin Minsky, are considered some of the founding fathers of AI.
The project lasted approximately six to eight weeks and was essentially an extended brainstorming session. Eleven mathematicians and scientists originally planned to attend; not all of them attended, but more than ten others came for short times.