1980s
| Date | Development |
|---|---|
| Early 1980s | The team of Ernst Dickmanns at Bundeswehr University of Munich builds the first robot cars, driving up to 55 mph on empty streets. |
| 1980s | Lisp machines developed and marketed. First expert system shells and commercial applications. |
| 1980 | First National Conference of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) held at Stanford. |
| 1981 | Danny Hillis designs the connection machine, which utilizes Parallel computing to bring new power to AI, and to computation in general. (Later founds Thinking Machines Corporation) |
| 1982 | The Fifth Generation Computer Systems project (FGCS), an initiative by Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry, begun in 1982, to create a "fifth generation computer" (see history of computing hardware) which was supposed to perform much calculation utilizing massive parallelism. |
| 1983 | John Laird and Paul Rosenbloom, working with Allen Newell, complete CMU dissertations on Soar (program). |
| 1983 | James F. Allen invents the Interval Calculus, the first widely used formalization of temporal events. |
| Mid 1980s | Neural Networks become widely used with the Backpropagation algorithm (first described by Paul Werbos in 1974). |
| 1985 | The autonomous drawing program, AARON, created by Harold Cohen, is demonstrated at the AAAI National Conference (based on more than a decade of work, and with subsequent work showing major developments). |
| 1987 | Marvin Minsky published The Society of Mind, a theoretical description of the mind as a collection of cooperating agents. He had been lecturing on the idea for years before the book came out (c.f. Doyle 1983). |
| 1987 | Around the same time, Rodney Brooks introduced the subsumption architecture and behavior-based robotics as a more minimalist modular model of natural intelligence; Nouvelle AI. |
| 1989 | Dean Pomerleau at CMU creates ALVINN (An Autonomous Land Vehicle in a Neural Network). |
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