AI's greatest trends and controversies
Simon, H.A.
Bibel, W.
Bundy, A.
Berliner, H.
Feigenbaum, E.A.
Buchanan, B.G.
Selfridge, O.
Michie, D.
Nilsson, N.
Sloman, A.
Waltz, D.
Brooks, R.
Davis, R.
Shrobe, H.
Boden, M.A.
Michalski, R.
Feldman, J.
Dreyfus, H.L.
Schank, R.C.
Amarel, S.
Hayes-Roth, B.
Pearl, J.
McCarthy, J.
Carnegie Mellon Univ., PA;
This paper appears in: Intelligent Systems and their Applications, IEEE
Publication Date: Jan/Feb 2000
Volume: 15,
Issue: 1
On page(s): 8-17
ISSN: 1094-7167
References Cited: 4
CODEN: IISYF7
INSPEC Accession Number: 6508622
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/5254.820322
Current Version Published: 2002-08-06
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The transition to the next millennium gives us an opportunity to
reflect on the past and project the future. In this spirit, we have
asked a set of distinguished scholars and practitioners who were
involved in AI's formative stages to describe the most notable trend or
controversy (or nontrend or noncontroversy) during AI's development. The
responses provide an interesting characterization of AI-and, in many
ways, of the people of AI. We gave our contributors a great deal of
flexibility in the nature of their responses. Some provided grand
summaries of the history of the field as a whole. Others commented
insightfully on more focused topics. Some observed changes and changed
along with them. Others are still making advances on research agendas
articulated presciently long ago. Some are optimistic. Others are
pessimistic. Despite the range, both individually and collectively they
provide insights into where we have been and where we are going.
Although each contribution is a unique expression of its author's
glimpse back through AI's development, there is repetition of important
themes that are at the discipline's core. The article serves as an
interesting record of where AI is today, as well as setting the stage
for what's to come
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