Author: Dennis Natali

This year marks the platinum jubilee for artificial intelligence. On August 31, 1955, John McCarthy and his colleagues proposed a summer workshop at Dartmouth College, coining the term “Artificial Intelligence” to distinguish their idea from the prevailing concept of “cybernetics.” This 13-page proposal became the field’s birth certificate. In 1973, my first year of high…

It was sad to witness the misunderstanding in the official viewpoint of The Gazette in its March 30 editorial against “Social Impact.” Since the paper’s statement of principals is to “Inform; not Lecture or Divide,” I am eager to add to this conversation and balance the discussion. As a business professor, I had to wince…