Some AI Lab Innovations

• 1959 LISP -- first computer language with

  • conditional expressions
  • storage management

• 1965 MacHack -- first tournament level chess program

  • all major features found today in Deep Blue
  • first real implementation of alpha-beta search

• 1967 First megabyte memory

• 1968 Macsymma -- first widely available computer algebra system

• 1972 First RAM-based bit-mapped display

• 1972 VICARM -- prototype of first commercial electric robot arm

• 1972 SHRDLU -- first natural language interface to a computer

• 1973 Actors -- precursor to object oriented programming

• 1975 Chess machine -- special purpose computer

• 1976 Chaosnet -- concurrent with first ethernet

• 1976 Lisp machine -- first personal workstations

• 1979 First special purpose vision chip

• 1982 Digital Orrerey -- first supercomputer in a box

• 1982 Connection Machine

• 1988 Small mobile robots -- direct precursor to 1997 Mars mission

• 1993 White House publication system

• 1993 PHANTOM -- first commercial haptic interface system

• 1997 Daily image guided brain surgery

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