#Foundations of AI

The 1956 Dartmouth Conference in full narrative detail — who was in the room, what they argued about in the evenings, what they agreed on, what they were spectacularly wrong about, and how a single summer's conversation gave a field its name, its mission, and the overconfidence that would eventually send it into its first winter.

In 1948 a Bell Labs engineer published a paper that invented information theory and gave the entire digital age its mathematical foundation. He then spent his later years building juggling robots, riding a unicycle through the corridors, and playing chess against early computers. The remarkable, playful, essential life of Claude Shannon.