1946: ENIAC heralds the dawn of Computing

I propose to consider the question: “Can machines think?” --Alan Turing, : Turing asks the question….

1995: RALPH takes a trip from coast to coast CMU’s RALPH program drove a van for all but 52 miles of a trip from D.C. to San Diego

1996: EQP proves that Robbin’s Algebras are all boolean [An Argonne lab program] has come up with a major mathematical proof that would have been called creative if a human had thought of it. -New York Times, December, 1996

1997: HAL 9000 becomes operational in fictional Urbana, Illinois …by now, every intelligent person knew that H-A-L is derived from Heuristic ALgorithmic - Dr. Chandra, 2010: Odyssey Two

1997: Deep Blue ends Human Supremacy in Chess I could feel human-level intelligence across the room -Gary Kasparov, World Chess Champion (human) vs. In a few years, even a single victory in a long series of games would be the triumph of human genius.

For two days in May, 1999, an AI Program called Remote Agent autonomously ran Deep Space 1 (some 60,000,000 miles from earth) 1999: Remote Agent takes Deep Space 1 on a galactic ride

2000: AI Search Techniques help map the Human Genome ….they would shatter the organism's DNA into millions of small fragments, run them through the sequencers (which can read 500 letters at a time), then reassemble them into the full genome using a high-speed computer and novel software written by in-house computer whiz Granger Sutton. Time Magazine, July 3rd, 2000

2002: Computers start passing Advanced Placement Tests … a project funded by (Microsoft Co-founder) Paul Allen attempts to design a “Digital Aristotle”. Its first results involve programs that can pass High School Advanced Placement Exam in Chemistry…

2003: Your own Space(d out) odyssey The Class … Just in the nick of time too. Even Kasparov is giving up, and another couple of years, the computers will start taking the class instead of you..

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