1957: Newell & Simon's General Problem Solver
1957: Rosenblatt's Perceptron
1957: Noam Chomsky's Grammar
1958: Selfridge's Pandemonium
1958: John McCarthy's LISP programming language
1958: John McCarthy's "Programs with Common Sense"
1959: John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky found the Artificial Intelligence Lab at the MIT
1959: Samuel's Checkers
1959: Yehoshua Bar-Hillel's "proof" that machine translation is impossible
1959: Noam Chomsky's review of a book by Skinner ends the domination of behaviorism and resurrects cognitivism
1960: Putnam's Computational Functionalism
1960: Widrow's Adaline
1961: First industrial robot at General Motors
1963 John McCarthy moves to Stanford and founds the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL)
1964: IBM's "Shoebox" for speech recognition
1965: Feigenbaum's Dendral
1965: Lotfi Zadeh's Fuzzy Logic
1966: Ross Quillian's semantic networks
1966: Weizenbaum's Eliza
1967: Hayes-Roth's Hearsay
1967: Fillmore's Case Frame Grammar
1968: Peter Toma founds Systran to commercialize machine-translation systems
1969: Minsky & Papert's Paper on Neural Networks
1969: First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) at Stanford
1969: Stanford Research Institute's Shakey the Robot
1970: Woods' ATN
1972: Alain Colmerauer's PROLOG programming language
1972: Buchanan's MYCIN
1972: Winograd's Shrdlu
1974: Minsky's Frame
1974: Paul Werbos' Backpropagation algorithm for neural networks
1975: Schank's Script
1975: Holland's Genetic Algorithms
1976: Doug Lenat's AM
1979: Clancey's Guidon
1979: Cordell Green's system for automatic programming
1979: Drew McDermott's non-monotonic logic
1979: David Marr's theory of vision
1980: McCarthy's Circumscription
1980: Searle's Chinese Room Article that attacked Artificial Intelligence
1980: McDermott's Xcon
1981: Danny Hillis' Connection Machine
1981: Teknowledge, the first major start-up to develop expert systems
1982: Hopfield's Neural Net
1982: Japan's Fifth Generation Computer Systems project
1983: John Laird and Paul Rosenbloom's SOAR
1986: Rumelhart & McClelland's PDP
1987: Marvin Minsky's "Society of Mind"
1987: Rodney Brooks' robots
1990: Carver Mead describes a neuromorphic processor
1997: IBM's "Deep Blue" chess machine beats the world's chess champion, Garry Kasparov
2000: Cynthia Breazeal's emotional robot, "Kismet"
2005: Honda's humanoid robot "Asimo"
2008: Dharmendra Modha at IBM launches a project to build a neuromorphic processor

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