ITS 498- Individual capstone
Spring 2020
Joyce Shalaby
Shin Ping Tucker
What is Artifical Intelligence?
Artifical Intelligence is the theory and the development of
computer systems able to perform tasks normally requiring human
intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition,
decision making, and translation between languages.
The term
artificial intelligence was first coined by John McCarthy in 1956
when he held the first academic conference on the subject. But the
journey to understand if machines can truly think began much before
that. In Vannevar Bush’s
seminal work he proposed a system which amplifies people’s own
knowledge and understanding. Five years later Alan Turing wrote a
paper on the notion of machines being able to simulate human beings
and the ability to do intelligent
things, such as play Chess.