Artificial intelligence: Pioneers of the boom in AI
Exactly 50 years ago, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) took a step that it still benefits from today. It was the first university in Germany to set up a chair specifically dedicated to pattern recognition. That makes it one of the pioneers in Germany of a discipline that can be considered the foundation of the current boom in artificial intelligence. This development could not have been predicted at the time. IBM had just launched the first portable computer, a relative term, since the machine weighed 25 kilos. Read more …