The Dartmouth Workshop, officially known as the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, was a pivotal event in the history of artificial intelligence (AI). Held in the summer of 1956 at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, the workshop was organized by John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, and Claude Shannon. The primary goal of the workshop was to explore the potential of machine intelligence and to discuss the feasibility of creating machines that could simulate aspects of human cognition.
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