The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence ran through the rest of that summer. John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Claude Shannon, and Nathaniel Rochester organized it, and historians treat it as the start of AI as a field. The actual workshop was messier than that. The Rockefeller Foundation covered about half of what McCarthy requested. People came and went on their own schedules. Everyone arrived with a different problem they cared about, so the work turned into a running a...