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Princeton, Bell Labs, and the Pioneers of Artificial Intelligence

November 27, 2017, 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location Sprague Library - Silent Study Area (Main Floor)
Posted InCollege of Science and Mathematics

A panel consisting of Edward Tenner (author of Our Own Devices: How Technology Remakes Humanity), Jimmy Soni (co-author of A Mind at Play), and Alex Magoun (IEEE History Center) discusses the brilliant minds at Bell Labs (Claude Shannon) and Princeton University (Marvin Minsky, John McCarthy, and John von Neumann) that created the new field of Artificial Intelligence.