Between the Booms: AI in Winter
AI became more pluralistic as a loss of faith in formerly dominant approaches created space for new ideas.
Thomas Haigh
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Fallout from an exploding bubble of hype triggered the real AI Winter in the late 1980s.
There Was No ‘First AI Winter’
Despite challenges and failures, the artificial intelligence community grew steadily during the 1970s.
Conjoined Twins: Artificial Intelligence and the Invention of Computer Science
How artificial intelligence and computer science grew up together.
Exploring Ellen Ullman's 'Close to the Machine' and AMC's 'Halt and Catch Fire.'
New discoveries answer an old question.
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Fifty years on, NASA's expensive triumph is a widely misunderstood model for spectacular innovation.
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