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The Dartmouth proposal of 31 August 1955 uses 'artificial intelligence' in its title and proposes a two-month, ten-man study of artificial intelligence in the summer of 1956. Copy claim link
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Date 1955-08-31 · event Records dated 1955 → Scope and limits Earliest located use by the recorded search; not evidence of coinage. McCarthy’s later statement about choosing the term is recorded separately as his own.
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A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence (facsimile) ↗ Ray Solomonoff archive (raysolomonoff.com) · 1955-08-31
Archived copy, captured 2025-08-30: A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence (facsimile) ↗
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Paraphrase The title page reads 'A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence', with the four authors and the date August 31, 1955.
Location in source Facsimile PDF p. 1, title page
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Machine-checked · 2026-10-31
Source details and check notes Authors J. McCarthy; M. L. Minsky; N. Rochester; C. E. Shannon Version Annotated facsimile of the dated typescript; title page and printed p. 3 inspected by the pre-1996 candidate search. Marginal annotations are excluded. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 2025-08-30: A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence (facsimile) ↗ . Captured 25567 days after the recorded publication date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2025-08-30. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-06.Attribution McCarthy, Minsky, Rochester and Shannon, Dartmouth proposal (1955), facsimile on raysolomonoff.com. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, Kinds of AI and technical history (research/technical-history). The paraphrase is Selekoa’s, written from the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29; it is not a quotation and was not machine-matched. Read from the page image; no text layer. A cross-family machine check (31 October 2026, item 55) re-read the record’s sources and found that they support what the record states. Its point that the date is the typescript’s dateline, not a publication date was applied at admission. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence (facsimile) ↗ Ray Solomonoff archive (raysolomonoff.com) · 1955-08-31
Archived copy, captured 2025-08-30: A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence (facsimile) ↗
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Paraphrase The opening paragraph proposes a 2 month, 10 man study of artificial intelligence during the summer of 1956 at Dartmouth College; the next line introduces the list that follows as some aspects of "the artificial intelligence problem".
Location in source Facsimile PDF p. 2, first paragraph
How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher
Machine-checked · 2026-10-31
Source details and check notes Authors J. McCarthy; M. L. Minsky; N. Rochester; C. E. Shannon Version Annotated facsimile of the dated typescript; title page and printed p. 3 inspected by the pre-1996 candidate search. Marginal annotations are excluded. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 2025-08-30: A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence (facsimile) ↗ . Captured 25567 days after the recorded publication date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2025-08-30. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-06.Attribution McCarthy, Minsky, Rochester and Shannon, Dartmouth proposal (1955), facsimile on raysolomonoff.com. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, Kinds of AI and technical history (research/technical-history). The paraphrase is Selekoa’s, written from the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29; it is not a quotation and was not machine-matched. Read from the page image of the annotated facsimile. A cross-family machine check (31 October 2026, item 55) re-read the record’s sources and found that they support what the record states. Its point that the date is the typescript’s dateline, not a publication date was applied at admission. No human editorial review. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
Relation. A passage of the document uses a name for a family of methods or a term, in the sense the concept’s naming criterion describes or, where labelled, in another sense. The record documents the use; it is not evidence that the name began there, and it implies no influence on or from another text.
Date. Dateline of the proposal’s typescript, read in a facsimile; no record of its distribution or publication on that day was verified. The summer study it proposes, in 1956, is a separate event.
Record ID th-term-ai-dartmouth-1955