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Article: Stories of AAAI---before the beginning and after: a love letter.(American Association for Artificial Intelligence)
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- AI Magazine
- Article date:
- December 22, 2005
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* This article provides a personal perspective, in three stories, on the origins of AAAI. In the first story, I explain the reasons justifying AAAI's existence. In the second story. In the second story, I recount some of the controvery over the name artificial intelligence, and explain why it was chosen as the new society's moniker. In the third story, I note that AI has not suffered from the applied versus research scism that has affected other societies. Finally, in the fourth story, I mention some of the early issues of finance.
This is not a full memoir of the early days of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, but only a few stories of the ...