[Ads-l] Fw: Antedating of "Artificial Intelligence"

[Shapiro, Fred]

I was the one who contributed the 1955 citation for "artificial intelligence" to OED, many years ago.  Since then I have tried hard to antedate that, but with such lack of success that I felt it was probably hopeless to find anything pre-1955.  As a result, when I was giving it one more stab and I found the 1951 science-fictional citation I didn't bother to check the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction.  Great find, Bill, did you get that from searching Internet Archive or through some other means ?

Fred Shapiro


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> Bill Mullins wrote:
> I sent this to Jesse's SFdictionary.com some time ago, but neglected to send it to the OED or the list here.
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Great work Bill and Fred. The 1951 citation is intriguing because
traditionally John McCarthy has received credit for naming the field
of artificial intelligence. The OED has this citation:

1955   J. McCarthy et al. 31 Aug. (title)    A proposal for the
Dartmouth summer research project on artificial intelligence.

I guess McCarthy should still receive credit for naming the field, but
E. Hamilton first applied the term to a fictional robot.

Garson

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