TY - JOUR AU - McCarthy, John AU - Minsky, Marvin L. AU - Rochester, Nathaniel AU - Shannon, Claude E. PY - 2006/12/15 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, August 31, 1955 JF - AI Magazine JA - AIMag VL - 27 IS - 4 SE - Articles DO - 10.1609/aimag.v27i4.1904 UR - https://ojs.aaai.org/aimagazine/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/1904 SP - 12 AB - The 1956 Dartmouth summer research project on artificial intelligence was initiated by this August 31, 1955 proposal, authored by John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, and Claude Shannon. The original typescript consisted of 17 pages plus a title page. Copies of the typescript are housed in the archives at Dartmouth College and Stanford University. The first 5 papers state the proposal, and the remaining pages give qualifications and interests of the four who proposed the study. In the interest of brevity, this article reproduces only the proposal itself, along with the short autobiographical statements of the proposers. ER -