Crevier 1993, pp.

4749, who writes "the conference is generally

recognized as the official birthdate of the new science."
Russell & Norvig 2003, p. 17, who call the conference "the birth of
artificial intelligence."
NRC 1999, pp. 200201
Hegemony of the Dartmouth conference attendees:
Russell & Norvig 2003, p. 17, who write "for the next 20 years the
field would be dominated by these people and their students."
McCorduck 2004, pp. 129130
Russell and Norvig write "it was astonishing whenever a computer did
anything kind of smartish." Russell & Norvig 2003, p. 18
"Golden years" of AI (successful symbolic reasoning programs 19561973):
McCorduck 2004, pp. 243252
Crevier 1993, pp. 52107
Moravec 1988, p. 9
Russell & Norvig 2003, pp. 1821
The programs described are Arthur Samuel's checkers program for the IBM
701, Daniel Bobrow's STUDENT, Newell and Simon's Logic Theorist and Terry
Winograd's SHRDLU.
DARPA pours money into undirected pure research into AI during the 1960s:
McCorduck 2004, pp. 131
Crevier 1993, pp. 51, 6465
NRC 1999, pp. 204205
AI in England:
Howe 1994
Optimism of early AI:
Herbert Simon quote: Simon 1965, p. 96 quoted in Crevier 1993, p.
109.
Marvin Minsky quote: Minsky 1967, p. 2 quoted in Crevier 1993, p.
109.
See The problems (in History of artificial intelligence)
Lighthill 1973.
First AI Winter, Mansfield Amendment, Lighthill report
Crevier 1993, pp. 115117
Russell & Norvig 2003, p. 22
NRC 1999, pp. 212213
Howe 1994
Expert systems:
ACM 1998, I.2.1
Russell & Norvig 2003, pp. 2224
Luger & Stubblefield 2004, pp. 227331
Nilsson 1998, chpt. 17.4
McCorduck 2004, pp. 327335, 434435
Crevier 1993, pp. 14562, 197203