"Intelligence is the formal manipulation of symbols via logical rules."
Alan Turing proposed a benchmark for machine intelligence based on the ability to exhibit behavior indistinguishable from a human.
The birth of the term "Artificial Intelligence." John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, and others set the goal of simulating every aspect of intelligence.
Frank Rosenblatt creates the first supervised neural network model. It was the ancestor of modern Deep Learning, though limited to single layers.
John McCarthy develops Lisp, the primary language for AI research for decades, focused on processing lists of symbols.
Programs designed by Newell and Simon to mimic human problem-solving by searching through "state spaces" to find solutions to theorems.