@Misc{A_Proposal_for_the_Dartmouth_Summer_Research_Project_on_Artificial_Intelligence, author = "John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, and Claude E. Shannon", title = "{A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence}", note = "The original proposal was dated August 31, 1955. This is a reformatted version by John McCarthy and shared on his website. The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on AI was a 1956 summer workshop widely considered to be the founding event of artificial intelligence as a field. Read more abut it on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_workshop">Wikipedia</a>. <img src="https://ai.umbc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/734/2025/07/The-attendants-of-the-Dartmouth-Conference.jpg" style='height: 90%; width: 90%; object-fit: contain; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;'>", }