Who’s That Kid Laughing With High Socks in the Middle of Summer?

The 1956 Dartmouth conference is considered the founding event of Artificial Intelligence. An atypical picture certainly brings together the main actors, but it is difficult to give a name to all the people present. I conducted the investigation…

Patrick Meyer
10 min readAug 11, 2020
7 participants at the 1956 conference. Photo credit: Margaret Minsky.

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Patrick Meyer

I work in the field of artificial intelligence, especially in knowledge processing and NLP. In particular, on virtual assistants since 2016.