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Dartmouth received $200,000 for Artificial Intelligence Conference
From Staff Reports
The Dartmouth (Dartmouth)
07/11/2006

(U-WIRE) HANOVER, N.H. — Dartmouth has received a $200,000 grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for the Dartmouth Artificial Intelligence Conference: The Next Fifty Years on July 13-15.

DARPA is the central research and development organization for the Department of Defense, and is responsible for "pursuing research and technology where risk and payoff are both very high and where success may provide dramatic advances for traditional military roles and missions," according to the its web site.

According to philosophy professor and conference director James Moor, the conference will focus on "those models and methodologies likely to yield progress as well as achievements in specific areas such as learning, vision, reasoning, search, natural language and cognition." This year marks the 50th anniversary of the 1956 Dartmouth Conference, the meeting where the concept of artificial intelligence was first formalized.

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