<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Minds &amp; Machines: The Story of AI</title><description>A 75-article series tracing the complete narrative history of Artificial Intelligence — from ancient myths to ChatGPT. Includes Articles, Profiles, and Events tracks.</description><link>https://ishistory.pages.dev/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>Articles A7: The First AI Programs: Teaching Machines to Play Games</title><link>https://ishistory.pages.dev/articles/a7-the-first-ai-programs-teaching-machines-to-play-games</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ishistory.pages.dev/articles/a7-the-first-ai-programs-teaching-machines-to-play-games</guid><description>Arthur Samuel&apos;s checkers program, early chess AI, and the first signs that machines could learn. The exhilarating early years.</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;Arthur Samuel&amp;apos;s checkers program, early chess AI, and the first signs that machines could learn. The exhilarating early years.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the full article at &lt;a href=&quot;https://ishistory.pages.dev/articles/a7-the-first-ai-programs-teaching-machines-to-play-games&quot;&gt;ishistory.pages.dev&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><category>📰 Articles</category><category>Part II · The Birth</category></item><item><title>Articles A8: ELIZA and the Illusion of Understanding</title><link>https://ishistory.pages.dev/articles/a8-eliza-and-the-illusion-of-understanding</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ishistory.pages.dev/articles/a8-eliza-and-the-illusion-of-understanding</guid><description>Joseph Weizenbaum&apos;s 1966 chatbot fooled everyone — including people who knew it was a program. The story of ELIZA and what its reception revealed.</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;Joseph Weizenbaum&amp;apos;s 1966 chatbot fooled everyone — including people who knew it was a program. The story of ELIZA and what its reception revealed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the full article at &lt;a href=&quot;https://ishistory.pages.dev/articles/a8-eliza-and-the-illusion-of-understanding&quot;&gt;ishistory.pages.dev&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><category>📰 Articles</category><category>Part II · The Birth</category></item><item><title>Articles A9: The Optimists: When AI Was Going to Solve Everything</title><link>https://ishistory.pages.dev/articles/a9-the-optimists-when-ai-was-going-to-solve-everything</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ishistory.pages.dev/articles/a9-the-optimists-when-ai-was-going-to-solve-everything</guid><description>The bold 1960s predictions, the government funding, and the intoxicating early hype. What made the founders of AI so confident.</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;The bold 1960s predictions, the government funding, and the intoxicating early hype. What made the founders of AI so confident.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the full article at &lt;a href=&quot;https://ishistory.pages.dev/articles/a9-the-optimists-when-ai-was-going-to-solve-everything&quot;&gt;ishistory.pages.dev&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><category>📰 Articles</category><category>Part II · The Birth</category></item><item><title>Articles A10: The First AI Winter: When the Dream Crashed</title><link>https://ishistory.pages.dev/articles/a10-the-first-ai-winter-when-the-dream-crashed</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ishistory.pages.dev/articles/a10-the-first-ai-winter-when-the-dream-crashed</guid><description>The Lighthill Report, the funding cuts, the broken promises — and why the first era of AI collapsed.</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;The Lighthill Report, the funding cuts, the broken promises — and why the first era of AI collapsed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the full article at &lt;a href=&quot;https://ishistory.pages.dev/articles/a10-the-first-ai-winter-when-the-dream-crashed&quot;&gt;ishistory.pages.dev&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><category>📰 Articles</category><category>Part II · The Birth</category></item><item><title>Articles A11: Expert Systems: AI Learns to Be a Specialist</title><link>https://ishistory.pages.dev/articles/a11-expert-systems-ai-learns-to-be-a-specialist</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ishistory.pages.dev/articles/a11-expert-systems-ai-learns-to-be-a-specialist</guid><description>How 1980s AI ditched general thinking and got smart by going narrow. MYCIN, XCON, and thousands of corporate AI systems.</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;How 1980s AI ditched general thinking and got smart by going narrow. MYCIN, XCON, and thousands of corporate AI systems.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the full article at &lt;a href=&quot;https://ishistory.pages.dev/articles/a11-expert-systems-ai-learns-to-be-a-specialist&quot;&gt;ishistory.pages.dev&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><category>📰 Articles</category><category>Part III · The Comeback</category></item><item><title>Articles A12: Japan&apos;s Billion-Dollar Bet on AI</title><link>https://ishistory.pages.dev/articles/a12-japans-billion-dollar-bet-on-ai</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ishistory.pages.dev/articles/a12-japans-billion-dollar-bet-on-ai</guid><description>The Fifth Generation Computer Project — the most audacious AI programme in history, the global panic it triggered, and the spectacular failure.</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;The Fifth Generation Computer Project — the most audacious AI programme in history, the global panic it triggered, and the spectacular failure.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the full article at &lt;a href=&quot;https://ishistory.pages.dev/articles/a12-japans-billion-dollar-bet-on-ai&quot;&gt;ishistory.pages.dev&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><category>📰 Articles</category><category>Part III · The Comeback</category></item><item><title>Articles A13: The Second AI Winter: Lightning Strikes Twice</title><link>https://ishistory.pages.dev/articles/a13-the-second-ai-winter-lightning-strikes-twice</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ishistory.pages.dev/articles/a13-the-second-ai-winter-lightning-strikes-twice</guid><description>The Lisp machine collapse, the DARPA funding cuts, the death of expert systems — and the stubborn few who kept working on neural networks.</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;The Lisp machine collapse, the DARPA funding cuts, the death of expert systems — and the stubborn few who kept working on neural networks.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the full article at &lt;a href=&quot;https://ishistory.pages.dev/articles/a13-the-second-ai-winter-lightning-strikes-twice&quot;&gt;ishistory.pages.dev&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><category>📰 Articles</category><category>Part III · The Comeback</category></item><item><title>Profiles P6: John McCarthy: The Man Who Named AI</title><link>https://ishistory.pages.dev/profiles/p6-john-mccarthy</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ishistory.pages.dev/profiles/p6-john-mccarthy</guid><description>The Dartmouth organiser, the inventor of LISP, the man who gave artificial intelligence its name — and the complicated legacy of a founder.</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;The Dartmouth organiser, the inventor of LISP, the man who gave artificial intelligence its name — and the complicated legacy of a founder.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the full article at &lt;a href=&quot;https://ishistory.pages.dev/profiles/p6-john-mccarthy&quot;&gt;ishistory.pages.dev&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><category>🧠 Profiles</category><category>Part II · The Birth</category></item><item><title>Profiles P7: Marvin Minsky: The Brilliant Optimist Who Got It Wrong</title><link>https://ishistory.pages.dev/profiles/p7-marvin-minsky</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ishistory.pages.dev/profiles/p7-marvin-minsky</guid><description>His towering influence, his wildly overconfident predictions, and how he accidentally helped cause the first AI winter.</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;His towering influence, his wildly overconfident predictions, and how he accidentally helped cause the first AI winter.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the full article at &lt;a href=&quot;https://ishistory.pages.dev/profiles/p7-marvin-minsky&quot;&gt;ishistory.pages.dev&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><category>🧠 Profiles</category><category>Part II · The Birth</category></item><item><title>Profiles P8: Newell &amp; Simon: The Dynamic Duo of Early AI</title><link>https://ishistory.pages.dev/profiles/p8-newell-and-simon</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ishistory.pages.dev/profiles/p8-newell-and-simon</guid><description>The Logic Theorist, the General Problem Solver, and two men who genuinely believed in 1955 that they had cracked human intelligence.</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;The Logic Theorist, the General Problem Solver, and two men who genuinely believed in 1955 that they had cracked human intelligence.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the full article at &lt;a href=&quot;https://ishistory.pages.dev/profiles/p8-newell-and-simon&quot;&gt;ishistory.pages.dev&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><category>🧠 Profiles</category><category>Part II · The Birth</category></item><item><title>Profiles P9: Joseph Weizenbaum: The Man Who Built ELIZA and Regretted It</title><link>https://ishistory.pages.dev/profiles/p9-joseph-weizenbaum</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ishistory.pages.dev/profiles/p9-joseph-weizenbaum</guid><description>How creating the world&apos;s first chatbot turned its creator into AI&apos;s most passionate critic.</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;How creating the world&amp;apos;s first chatbot turned its creator into AI&amp;apos;s most passionate critic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the full article at &lt;a href=&quot;https://ishistory.pages.dev/profiles/p9-joseph-weizenbaum&quot;&gt;ishistory.pages.dev&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><category>🧠 Profiles</category><category>Part II · The Birth</category></item><item><title>Profiles P10: Frank Rosenblatt: The Forgotten Father of Neural Networks</title><link>https://ishistory.pages.dev/profiles/p10-frank-rosenblatt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ishistory.pages.dev/profiles/p10-frank-rosenblatt</guid><description>The Perceptron, the media frenzy, the crushing dismissal by Minsky — and a legacy that took fifty years to be vindicated.</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;The Perceptron, the media frenzy, the crushing dismissal by Minsky — and a legacy that took fifty years to be vindicated.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the full article at &lt;a href=&quot;https://ishistory.pages.dev/profiles/p10-frank-rosenblatt&quot;&gt;ishistory.pages.dev&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><category>🧠 Profiles</category><category>Part II · The Birth</category></item><item><title>Profiles P11: Geoffrey Hinton: The Stubborn Godfather</title><link>https://ishistory.pages.dev/profiles/p11-geoffrey-hinton</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ishistory.pages.dev/profiles/p11-geoffrey-hinton</guid><description>Decades of rejection, the backpropagation breakthrough, and the man who built the foundation of modern AI — then quit Google to warn the world.</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;Decades of rejection, the backpropagation breakthrough, and the man who built the foundation of modern AI — then quit Google to warn the world.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the full article at &lt;a href=&quot;https://ishistory.pages.dev/profiles/p11-geoffrey-hinton&quot;&gt;ishistory.pages.dev&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><category>🧠 Profiles</category><category>Part III · The Comeback</category></item><item><title>Profiles P12: Yann LeCun: The Rebel with a Vision</title><link>https://ishistory.pages.dev/profiles/p12-yann-lecun</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ishistory.pages.dev/profiles/p12-yann-lecun</guid><description>Convolutional neural networks, his battles with the AI establishment, and the architect of Meta&apos;s AI empire.</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;Convolutional neural networks, his battles with the AI establishment, and the architect of Meta&amp;apos;s AI empire.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the full article at &lt;a href=&quot;https://ishistory.pages.dev/profiles/p12-yann-lecun&quot;&gt;ishistory.pages.dev&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><category>🧠 Profiles</category><category>Part III · The Comeback</category></item><item><title>Profiles P13: Yoshua Bengio: The Conscience of AI</title><link>https://ishistory.pages.dev/profiles/p13-yoshua-bengio</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ishistory.pages.dev/profiles/p13-yoshua-bengio</guid><description>The third Godfather — his deep learning contributions, his evolution from pure researcher to AI safety advocate.</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;The third Godfather — his deep learning contributions, his evolution from pure researcher to AI safety advocate.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the full article at &lt;a href=&quot;https://ishistory.pages.dev/profiles/p13-yoshua-bengio&quot;&gt;ishistory.pages.dev&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><category>🧠 Profiles</category><category>Part III · The Comeback</category></item><item><title>Events E6: The First AI Winter, 1974–1980: The Great Disillusionment</title><link>https://ishistory.pages.dev/events/e6-the-first-ai-winter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ishistory.pages.dev/events/e6-the-first-ai-winter</guid><description>The funding collapse, the broken promises, the researchers who lost their jobs — and the underground survivors who kept the flame alive.</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;The funding collapse, the broken promises, the researchers who lost their jobs — and the underground survivors who kept the flame alive.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the full article at &lt;a href=&quot;https://ishistory.pages.dev/events/e6-the-first-ai-winter&quot;&gt;ishistory.pages.dev&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><category>⚡ Events</category><category>Part II · The Birth</category></item><item><title>Events E7: The Rise of Expert Systems, 1980: AI Gets a Job</title><link>https://ishistory.pages.dev/events/e7-the-rise-of-expert-systems</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ishistory.pages.dev/events/e7-the-rise-of-expert-systems</guid><description>How MYCIN, XCON, and thousands of corporate AI systems made real money by going narrow. The comeback story — and the seeds of the next collapse.</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;How MYCIN, XCON, and thousands of corporate AI systems made real money by going narrow. The comeback story — and the seeds of the next collapse.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the full article at &lt;a href=&quot;https://ishistory.pages.dev/events/e7-the-rise-of-expert-systems&quot;&gt;ishistory.pages.dev&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><category>⚡ Events</category><category>Part II · The Birth</category></item><item><title>Events E8: Japan&apos;s Fifth Generation Project, 1982: The Billion-Dollar Gamble</title><link>https://ishistory.pages.dev/events/e8-japans-fifth-generation-project</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ishistory.pages.dev/events/e8-japans-fifth-generation-project</guid><description>The most audacious AI project in history, the global panic it triggered, and its quiet, spectacular failure.</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;The most audacious AI project in history, the global panic it triggered, and its quiet, spectacular failure.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the full article at &lt;a href=&quot;https://ishistory.pages.dev/events/e8-japans-fifth-generation-project&quot;&gt;ishistory.pages.dev&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><category>⚡ Events</category><category>Part II · The Birth</category></item><item><title>Events E9: The Second AI Winter, 1987–1993: Lightning Strikes Twice</title><link>https://ishistory.pages.dev/events/e9-the-second-ai-winter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ishistory.pages.dev/events/e9-the-second-ai-winter</guid><description>The Lisp machine market collapse, DARPA funding cuts, the death of expert systems — and the second time the world gave up on AI.</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;The Lisp machine market collapse, DARPA funding cuts, the death of expert systems — and the second time the world gave up on AI.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the full article at &lt;a href=&quot;https://ishistory.pages.dev/events/e9-the-second-ai-winter&quot;&gt;ishistory.pages.dev&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><category>⚡ Events</category><category>Part II · The Birth</category></item><item><title>Events E10: Backpropagation Goes Mainstream, 1986: The Algorithm That Refused to Die</title><link>https://ishistory.pages.dev/events/e10-backpropagation-goes-mainstream</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ishistory.pages.dev/events/e10-backpropagation-goes-mainstream</guid><description>How Hinton, Rumelhart, and Williams revived a buried idea and planted the seed for everything that came after.</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;How Hinton, Rumelhart, and Williams revived a buried idea and planted the seed for everything that came after.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the full article at &lt;a href=&quot;https://ishistory.pages.dev/events/e10-backpropagation-goes-mainstream&quot;&gt;ishistory.pages.dev&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><category>⚡ Events</category><category>Part II · The Birth</category></item><item><title>Events E11: Deep Blue vs. Kasparov, 1997: The Match the World Watched</title><link>https://ishistory.pages.dev/events/e11-deep-blue-vs-kasparov-1997</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ishistory.pages.dev/events/e11-deep-blue-vs-kasparov-1997</guid><description>The full story of both matches, the controversy, Kasparov&apos;s accusations of cheating, and what it meant for AI — and for what it means to be human.</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;The full story of both matches, the controversy, Kasparov&amp;apos;s accusations of cheating, and what it meant for AI — and for what it means to be human.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the full article at &lt;a href=&quot;https://ishistory.pages.dev/events/e11-deep-blue-vs-kasparov-1997&quot;&gt;ishistory.pages.dev&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><category>⚡ Events</category><category>Part III · The Comeback</category></item><item><title>Events E12: The Netflix Prize, 2006: The Moment the Crowd Beat the Experts</title><link>https://ishistory.pages.dev/events/e12-the-netflix-prize-2006</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ishistory.pages.dev/events/e12-the-netflix-prize-2006</guid><description>How a $1 million open competition accelerated machine learning by a decade and established the template for AI research.</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;How a $1 million open competition accelerated machine learning by a decade and established the template for AI research.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the full article at &lt;a href=&quot;https://ishistory.pages.dev/events/e12-the-netflix-prize-2006&quot;&gt;ishistory.pages.dev&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><category>⚡ Events</category><category>Part III · The Comeback</category></item><item><title>Events E13: The ImageNet Project, 2009: Teaching Machines to See</title><link>https://ishistory.pages.dev/events/e13-the-imagenet-project-2009</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ishistory.pages.dev/events/e13-the-imagenet-project-2009</guid><description>How Fei-Fei Li assembled 14 million labelled images — and why that dataset became the launching pad for modern AI.</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;How Fei-Fei Li assembled 14 million labelled images — and why that dataset became the launching pad for modern AI.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the full article at &lt;a href=&quot;https://ishistory.pages.dev/events/e13-the-imagenet-project-2009&quot;&gt;ishistory.pages.dev&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><category>⚡ Events</category><category>Part IV · The Revolution</category></item><item><title>Articles A4: Ada Lovelace &amp; The First Algorithm</title><link>https://ishistory.pages.dev/articles/a4-ada-lovelace-and-the-first-algorithm</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ishistory.pages.dev/articles/a4-ada-lovelace-and-the-first-algorithm</guid><description>Going deeper into the actual mathematics of the Notes on the Analytical Engine, what the Bernoulli number algorithm actually did, and why those footnotes were more radical than most realise.</description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;Going deeper into the actual mathematics of the Notes on the Analytical Engine, what the Bernoulli number algorithm actually did, and why those footnotes were more radical than most realise.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the full article at &lt;a href=&quot;https://ishistory.pages.dev/articles/a4-ada-lovelace-and-the-first-algorithm&quot;&gt;ishistory.pages.dev&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><category>📰 Articles</category><category>Part I · The Dream</category></item><item><title>Articles A5: Alan Turing: The Man Who Imagined Everything</title><link>https://ishistory.pages.dev/articles/a5-alan-turing-the-man-who-imagined-everything</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ishistory.pages.dev/articles/a5-alan-turing-the-man-who-imagined-everything</guid><description>The full narrative arc of Turing&apos;s intellectual journey — from the Turing Machine to Bletchley Park to the 1950 paper to morphogenesis.</description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;The full narrative arc of Turing&amp;apos;s intellectual journey — from the Turing Machine to Bletchley Park to the 1950 paper to morphogenesis.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the full article at &lt;a href=&quot;https://ishistory.pages.dev/articles/a5-alan-turing-the-man-who-imagined-everything&quot;&gt;ishistory.pages.dev&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><category>📰 Articles</category><category>Part I · The Dream</category></item><item><title>Articles A6: The Summer That Named AI</title><link>https://ishistory.pages.dev/articles/a6-the-summer-that-named-ai</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ishistory.pages.dev/articles/a6-the-summer-that-named-ai</guid><description>The 1956 Dartmouth Conference — who was in the room, what they argued about, what they got right, and what they got catastrophically wrong.</description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;The 1956 Dartmouth Conference — who was in the room, what they argued about, what they got right, and what they got catastrophically wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the full article at &lt;a href=&quot;https://ishistory.pages.dev/articles/a6-the-summer-that-named-ai&quot;&gt;ishistory.pages.dev&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><category>📰 Articles</category><category>Part II · The Birth</category></item><item><title>Profiles P4: Norbert Wiener: The Father of Cybernetics</title><link>https://ishistory.pages.dev/profiles/p4-norbert-wiener</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ishistory.pages.dev/profiles/p4-norbert-wiener</guid><description>The forgotten genius who invented cybernetics and first warned the world about machines replacing humans — in 1950. Why nobody listened.</description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;The forgotten genius who invented cybernetics and first warned the world about machines replacing humans — in 1950. Why nobody listened.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the full article at &lt;a href=&quot;https://ishistory.pages.dev/profiles/p4-norbert-wiener&quot;&gt;ishistory.pages.dev&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><category>🧠 Profiles</category><category>Part I · The Pioneers</category></item><item><title>Profiles P5: Claude Shannon: The Man Who Invented Information</title><link>https://ishistory.pages.dev/profiles/p5-claude-shannon</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ishistory.pages.dev/profiles/p5-claude-shannon</guid><description>One Bell Labs engineer created information theory and gave AI its mathematical language. His 1948 paper is the most important paper in the history of communications.</description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;One Bell Labs engineer created information theory and gave AI its mathematical language. His 1948 paper is the most important paper in the history of communications.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the full article at &lt;a href=&quot;https://ishistory.pages.dev/profiles/p5-claude-shannon&quot;&gt;ishistory.pages.dev&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><category>🧠 Profiles</category><category>Part II · The Birth</category></item><item><title>Events E4: ELIZA, 1966: The Chatbot That Made People Cry</title><link>https://ishistory.pages.dev/events/e4-eliza-1966</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ishistory.pages.dev/events/e4-eliza-1966</guid><description>A simple pattern-matching program accidentally became the world&apos;s most intimate conversationalist. The story of the first chatbot — and what it revealed about human loneliness.</description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;A simple pattern-matching program accidentally became the world&amp;apos;s most intimate conversationalist. The story of the first chatbot — and what it revealed about human loneliness.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the full article at &lt;a href=&quot;https://ishistory.pages.dev/events/e4-eliza-1966&quot;&gt;ishistory.pages.dev&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><category>⚡ Events</category><category>Part I · The Origins</category></item><item><title>Events E5: The Lighthill Report, 1973: The Document That Killed AI</title><link>https://ishistory.pages.dev/events/e5-the-lighthill-report-1973</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ishistory.pages.dev/events/e5-the-lighthill-report-1973</guid><description>How one British mathematician&apos;s critical review caused governments worldwide to pull AI funding and sent the field into its first winter.</description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;How one British mathematician&amp;apos;s critical review caused governments worldwide to pull AI funding and sent the field into its first winter.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the full article at &lt;a href=&quot;https://ishistory.pages.dev/events/e5-the-lighthill-report-1973&quot;&gt;ishistory.pages.dev&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><category>⚡ Events</category><category>Part II · The Birth</category></item><item><title>Events E3: The Logic Theorist, 1956: The First AI Program</title><link>https://ishistory.pages.dev/events/e3-the-logic-theorist-1956</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ishistory.pages.dev/events/e3-the-logic-theorist-1956</guid><description>The night Newell and Simon&apos;s program proved mathematical theorems — and why they believed they had cracked human intelligence.</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;The night Newell and Simon&amp;apos;s program proved mathematical theorems — and why they believed they had cracked human intelligence.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the full article at &lt;a href=&quot;https://ishistory.pages.dev/events/e3-the-logic-theorist-1956&quot;&gt;ishistory.pages.dev&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><category>⚡ Events</category><category>Part I · The Origins</category></item><item><title>Profiles P3: John von Neumann: The Man Who Designed the Modern Computer</title><link>https://ishistory.pages.dev/profiles/p3-john-von-neumann</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ishistory.pages.dev/profiles/p3-john-von-neumann</guid><description>He spoke eight languages, memorised entire books, designed the architecture every computer still uses today, and helped build the atomic bomb.</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;He spoke eight languages, memorised entire books, designed the architecture every computer still uses today, and helped build the atomic bomb.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the full article at &lt;a href=&quot;https://ishistory.pages.dev/profiles/p3-john-von-neumann&quot;&gt;ishistory.pages.dev&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><category>🧠 Profiles</category><category>Part I · The Pioneers</category></item><item><title>Articles A3: The Philosophers Who Asked &quot;Can Machines Think?&quot;</title><link>https://ishistory.pages.dev/articles/a3-the-philosophers-who-asked-can-machines-think</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ishistory.pages.dev/articles/a3-the-philosophers-who-asked-can-machines-think</guid><description>Before the engineers came the philosophers. Leibniz dreamed of a calculus of thought. Pascal built the first calculator. The thinkers who laid the conceptual groundwork.</description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;Before the engineers came the philosophers. Leibniz dreamed of a calculus of thought. Pascal built the first calculator. The thinkers who laid the conceptual groundwork.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the full article at &lt;a href=&quot;https://ishistory.pages.dev/articles/a3-the-philosophers-who-asked-can-machines-think&quot;&gt;ishistory.pages.dev&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><category>📰 Articles</category><category>Part I · The Dream</category></item><item><title>Events E2: The Turing Test, 1950: The Question That Still Has No Answer</title><link>https://ishistory.pages.dev/events/e2-the-turing-test-1950</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ishistory.pages.dev/events/e2-the-turing-test-1950</guid><description>The paper, the test, the nine objections Turing answered himself, ELIZA, the Chinese Room, and why seventy-five years later the question has still not been answered.</description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;The paper, the test, the nine objections Turing answered himself, ELIZA, the Chinese Room, and why seventy-five years later the question has still not been answered.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the full article at &lt;a href=&quot;https://ishistory.pages.dev/events/e2-the-turing-test-1950&quot;&gt;ishistory.pages.dev&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><category>⚡ Events</category><category>Part I · The Origins</category></item><item><title>Profiles P2: Alan Turing: The Man Who Invented the Future</title><link>https://ishistory.pages.dev/profiles/p2-alan-turing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ishistory.pages.dev/profiles/p2-alan-turing</guid><description>He broke the Nazi&apos;s unbreakable code, designed the architecture of the modern computer, asked whether machines could think — and was destroyed by the country he had saved.</description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;He broke the Nazi&amp;apos;s unbreakable code, designed the architecture of the modern computer, asked whether machines could think — and was destroyed by the country he had saved.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the full article at &lt;a href=&quot;https://ishistory.pages.dev/profiles/p2-alan-turing&quot;&gt;ishistory.pages.dev&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><category>🧠 Profiles</category><category>Part I · The Pioneers</category></item><item><title>Articles A2: Clockwork Wonders: The Automata Era</title><link>https://ishistory.pages.dev/articles/a2-clockwork-wonders-the-automata-era</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ishistory.pages.dev/articles/a2-clockwork-wonders-the-automata-era</guid><description>Before electricity, craftsmen across Europe built mechanical marvels that walked, wrote, played music, and digested food. The extraordinary story of the automata era.</description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;Before electricity, craftsmen across Europe built mechanical marvels that walked, wrote, played music, and digested food. The extraordinary story of the automata era.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the full article at &lt;a href=&quot;https://ishistory.pages.dev/articles/a2-clockwork-wonders-the-automata-era&quot;&gt;ishistory.pages.dev&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><category>📰 Articles</category><category>Part I · The Dream</category></item><item><title>Articles A1: The Ancient Dream of Artificial Life</title><link>https://ishistory.pages.dev/articles/a1-the-ancient-dream-of-artificial-life</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ishistory.pages.dev/articles/a1-the-ancient-dream-of-artificial-life</guid><description>From the bronze giant Talos to the clay Golem — how ancient civilisations dreamed of artificial life thousands of years before the computer existed.</description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;From the bronze giant Talos to the clay Golem — how ancient civilisations dreamed of artificial life thousands of years before the computer existed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the full article at &lt;a href=&quot;https://ishistory.pages.dev/articles/a1-the-ancient-dream-of-artificial-life&quot;&gt;ishistory.pages.dev&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><category>📰 Articles</category><category>Part I · The Dream</category></item><item><title>Events E1: The Dartmouth Conference, 1956: The Summer AI Was Born</title><link>https://ishistory.pages.dev/events/e1-the-dartmouth-conference-1956</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ishistory.pages.dev/events/e1-the-dartmouth-conference-1956</guid><description>Who was in the room, what they argued about, what they got right, what they got catastrophically wrong — and why giving a field a name was one of the most consequential acts in tech history.</description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;Who was in the room, what they argued about, what they got right, what they got catastrophically wrong — and why giving a field a name was one of the most consequential acts in tech history.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the full article at &lt;a href=&quot;https://ishistory.pages.dev/events/e1-the-dartmouth-conference-1956&quot;&gt;ishistory.pages.dev&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><category>⚡ Events</category><category>Part I · The Origins</category></item><item><title>Profiles P1: Ada Lovelace: The First Programmer the World Forgot</title><link>https://ishistory.pages.dev/profiles/p1-ada-lovelace</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ishistory.pages.dev/profiles/p1-ada-lovelace</guid><description>She wrote the world&apos;s first computer program in 1843 — for a machine that didn&apos;t exist yet. Then history forgot her for a hundred years.</description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;She wrote the world&amp;apos;s first computer program in 1843 — for a machine that didn&amp;apos;t exist yet. Then history forgot her for a hundred years.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the full article at &lt;a href=&quot;https://ishistory.pages.dev/profiles/p1-ada-lovelace&quot;&gt;ishistory.pages.dev&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><category>🧠 Profiles</category><category>Part I · The Pioneers</category></item></channel></rss>