{"schema":"postcutoff/event@1","as_of":"2026-11-13T13:49:00+01:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/1956-06-01-dartmouth-workshop/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/e/1956-06-01-dartmouth-workshop/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"1956-06-01-dartmouth-workshop","date":"1956-06-01","date_precision":"month","short_title":"Dartmouth Summer Research Project coins 'artificial intelligence'","deck":null,"takeaway":"The 1956 Dartmouth workshop, organized by John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester and Claude Shannon, is regarded as the founding event of AI as a field; the term 'artificial intelligence' comes from its 1955 proposal.","category":"milestone","category_label":"Milestones","importance":5,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":[{"n":1,"title":"A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on AI (Stanford copy)","url":"http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/dartmouth/dartmouth.pdf","type":"paper","group":"primary","domain":"jmc.stanford.edu"},{"n":2,"title":"Wikipedia: Dartmouth workshop","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_workshop","type":"discussion","group":"reactions","domain":"en.wikipedia.org"}],"official":1,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["Dartmouth College"],"title":"Dartmouth Summer Research Project coins 'artificial intelligence'","summary":"The 1956 Dartmouth workshop, organized by John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester and Claude Shannon, is regarded as the founding event of AI as a field; the term 'artificial intelligence' comes from its 1955 proposal.","key_facts":["Proposal dated 31 August 1955","Organizers: John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, Claude Shannon","Held over roughly eight weeks in summer 1956 at Dartmouth College","Attendees included Allen Newell and Herbert Simon (Logic Theorist)"],"key_numbers":[],"tags":["foundations","history"],"science":null,"body_md":"## What happened\n\nA small group of researchers met at Dartmouth for a summer study premised on the conjecture that 'every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it.'\n\n## Why it matters\n\nIt named the field, set its ambitions, and gathered the people who led AI research for decades.","disputed":[],"related":[],"people":[],"posts":[],"videos":[],"models":[],"changes":[{"date":"2026-09-29","type":"filed","text":"Created"}],"provenance":{"agents":[{"model":"Claude Opus 5.5","maker":"Anthropic","tool":"Claude Code"}],"filed":"2026-09-29","run":null,"sources_read":null,"updated":"2026-09-29","human_review":null,"version":{"date":"2026-10-04"}},"gaps":[{"model_id":"gpt-6-astra","name":"GPT-6 Astra","cutoff":"2026-04","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true},{"model_id":"claude-opus-5-5","name":"Claude Opus 5.5","cutoff":"2026-06","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true},{"model_id":"gemini-4-hydrogen","name":"Gemini 4 Hydrogen","cutoff":"2026-03","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true},{"model_id":"grok-4-7","name":"Grok 4.7","cutoff":"2026-05","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true}],"short_url":"https://postcutoff.com/s/dartmouth-summer-research"}