Videos that are tagged with: history

• A panel discussion about Artificial Intelligence.
  The Charlie Rose Show television broadcast: A panel discussion about the latest developments in Artificial Intelligence with Rodney Brooks of MIT, Eric Horvitz of Microsoft Research and Ron Brachman of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. December 21, 2004. (more)
• AGI-08 promotional video.
  Promotional video for The First Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-08). FedEx Institute of Technology, University of Memphis. In cooperation with AAAI. March 1-3, 2008. The video answers the question: What is AGI?. December 2007. (more)
• ArsDigita University Curriculum - Artificial Intelligence course taught by Patrick Winston. Lecture #1 (of 4): AI Overview, Rule-Based Expert Systems and Knowledge Engineering.
  ArsDigita University Curriculum: "The curriculum was modeled on the undergraduate CS program at MIT. Several of the courses were straightforward adoptions of MIT courses. A few were specifically designed for the program, which was roughly in line with the ACM's 2001 Model Curricula for Computing." June 4, 2001. (more)
• DaVinci's Walking Lion (1515).
  The mechanism of Leonardo DaVinci's walking lion is shown in this video. Links to videos of other DaVinci inventions. 2008. (more)
• ENIAC inventor John Mauchly tells all.
  "Mauchly, co-inventor of the ENIAC, first unveiled the ENIAC at University of Pennsylvania in 1946. Here are excerpts from Blastoffmedia's 98-minute documentary, 'The Computer and the Skateboard.'" Clips feature John Mauchly, Kay Mauchly, Mitchell Marcus, Evan Snyder, Joe Chapline, and James Reed. 2000. (more)
• Endgame: Challenging the Masters.
  Brief look at the deciding game of the chess match between Gary Kasparov and Deep Blue, May 11, 1997. 2005. (more)
• History of Computer Chess.
  Panel Discussion with John McCarthy, David Levy, Murray Campbell and Edward Feigenbaum. Moderated by Monty Newborn. Computer Museum. This panel, comprising seminal contributors to the solution of this challenge -- including two of AI's leading pioneers -- discusses the origin and development of computer chess and what it tells us about ourselves and the machines we build. Sept. 8, 2005. (more)
• IWSC / ASWC 2007 Invited Speaker: Chris Welty (IBM T J Watson Research Center) - How I was right even when I was wrong.
  "For the past several years I have warned people not to ask me to predict the future, because my predictions are usually wrong. Undaunted by failure, in this talk I will try to predict the future of the semantic web based on a very personal view of its history, the history of the internet, web, semantic web, and AI, and the mistakes I've made predicting where and how they would be valuable." November 15, 2007. (more)
• Interview with Joshua Lederberg (An uplifting talk).
  Dr. Lederberg gives an uplifting talk on what it is like to be a scientistFrom an oral history conducted by Barbara Hyde with Dr. Lederberg.. March 22, 1996. (more)
• Interview with Joshua Lederberg (Early interest in science).
  Dr. Lederberg talks about his early interest in science. From an oral history conducted by Barbara Hyde with Dr. Lederberg.. March 22, 1996. (more)
• Japan Displays Robo History.
  A new exhibition celebrates Japan's long history in the field of robotics. Demos from prototypes. October 2007. (more)
• Lighthill Controversy Debate at the Royal Institution with Professor Sir James Lighthill, Professor Donald Michie, Professor Richard Gregory and Professor John McCarthy.
  Professors Donald Michie [Edinburgh], Richard Gregory [Bristol] and John McCarthy [Stanford] challenge the pessimistic findings & views of Professor Sir James Lighthill [Cambridge], author of "The Lighthill Report" [Artificial Intelligence: A General Survey, in Artificial Intelligence: a paper symposium, Science Research Council (1973)]. June 1973. (more)
• NLS Demo.
  On December 9, 1968, Douglas C. Engelbart and the group of 17 researchers working with him in the Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, CA, presented a 90-minute live public demonstration of the online system, NLS, they had been working on since 1962. The public presentation was a session in the of the Fall Joint Computer Conference held at the Convention Center in San Francisco. This site links to 35 segments,reformatted as RealVideo streaming video clips, with descriptions of each clip. December 9, 1968. (more)
• Recollections of early AI in Britain: 1942 - 1965. An interview with Professor Donald Michie.
  Video for the BCS Computer Conservation Society's October 2002 Conference on the history of AI in Britain. a/k/a Recollections of the Pioneers. "Q: What was your earliest contact with the idea of intelligent machinery? A: Arriving at Bletchley Park in 1942 I formed a friendship with Alan Turing, and in April 1943 with Jack Good. The three of us formed a sort of discussion club focused around Turing's astonishing 'child machine' concept. Hisproposal was to use our knowledge of how the brain acquires its intelligence as a model for designing a teachable intelligent machine." September, 2002. (more)
• Surgical Robotics: Is R2D2 in Your Future?.
  "Surgical Robots are here now; they have their roots in Stanford-based research and Silicon Valley development. How do they work? What can they do? Thomas Krummel, MD, [Emile Holman Professor and chair, Department of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine] addresses the current uses of surgical robotics, the reasons for using them and their role in future medical treatments." Questions from the audience follow the talk. March 23, 2006. (more)
• The Age of Intelligent Machines: The Film. By Raymond Kurzweil.
  From the original video notes: A survey of Artificial Intelligence showing AI at work and under development. The paradoxes, promise and challenges of advanced computer science, with authorities Marvin Minsky, Roger Schank, Raj Reddy and other leaders in the field. 1987. (more)
• The Antikythera Mechanism (Part 2)
  Description of the mechanism, with some recent findings. Shows the working model. 2008. (more)
• The ENIAC and its makers: Eighteen-thousand vacuum tubes and a box of light bulbs.
  On Valentine's Day sixty years ago, the world read the first newspaper accounts of a mysterious, new computing machine in Philadelphia. It wasn't the first computer ever made, but on that day, public awareness of modern technology took its first great post-war jump forward." Featuring Presper Eckert, John Mauchly, and ENIAC, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. 1946. (more)
• The Founders' Forum.
  Moderator: Nils Nilsson. Panelists: Edward Feigenbaum, John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Oliver Selfridge, Karen Spark-Jones, Nils Nilsson. Panel #3. July 16, 2006. (more)
• University Video Communications Distinguished Lecture Series: Daniel G. Bobrow - Common LISP Object Standard (CLOS).
  Daniel Bobrow, Chairman of the Common LISP Object Specification Committee, characterized this lecture as "a snapshot of history in action." After discussing the history of object systems and the current state of the art, he explores the process of developing this new standard. . October 27, 1987. (more)
• Video of First Computer with a CPU and ERNST ARM Robotic Arm.
  Film switches between clips of Ernst arm moving through picking up and stacking blocks and between shots of the TX-0 Computer. 1955?. (more)
• Visions of AI from the First Round of Graduate Students.
  Moderator: Raj Reddy. Panelists: Danny Bobrow, Don Loveland, Robert Kahn, Nils Nilsson, Raj Reddy. Panel #1. July 15, 2006. (more)
• Washburn Lecture Series at the Museum of Science, Boston: "2001: A Space Odyssey. Are we there yet?" Lecture one (of three) - Human/Computer Conversation: HAL and Beyond, with Justine Cassell, Ph.D..
  Justine Cassell's lecture, "Human/Computer Conversation: HAL and Beyond," was the first in the three speaker lecture series: "2001: A Space Odyssey. Are we there yet?" November 6, 2001. (more)
• Women in the History of Computer Science: a panel discussion at the 1997 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference.
  "A panel of pioneers of the 1940s and 1950s discusses their experiences which range from programming the world's first computing machines to developing biomedical and graphical applications for computers. This video provides an opportunity to hear and learn the hidden history of the period and confirm that Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper were not the only female contributors to the rich history of computing! These pioneers remain role models for women in computing today." September 1997. (more)