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The conference lasted a month, and it was essentially an extended [[brainstorming]] session.

== Proposal Contents ==

The proposal introduction states

:We propose that a 2 month, 10 man study of artificial intelligence be carried out during the summer of 1956 at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The study is to proceed on the basis of 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. An attempt will be made to find how to make machines use language, form abstractions and concepts, solve kinds of problems now reserved for humans, and improve themselves. We think that a significant advance can be made in one or more of these problems if a carefully selected group of scientists work on it together for a summer.

(McCarthy et al 1955)

The proposal goes on to discuss [[computers]], [[natural language processing]], [[neural networks]], [[theory of computation]], [[abstraction]] and [[creativity]] -- all still open research areas.

== Attendees ==

According to the AI Geneology Project [http://aigp.csres.utexas.edu/~aigp/html/faq.phtml], besides the proposal's authors, attendees included [[Ray Solomonoff]], [[Oliver Selfridge]], [[Trenchard More]], [[Arthur Samuel]], [[Herbert Simon]], and [[Allen Newell]].

== References ==

* (McCarthy et al, 1955) J. McCarthy, M. L. Minsky, N. Rochester and C.E. Shannon, "A PROPOSAL FOR THE DARTMOUTH SUMMER RESEARCH PROJECT ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE", [http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/dartmouth/dartmouth.html online]

== See Also ==

* [[history of artificial intelligence]]

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