University of Cambridge
Research university in Cambridge, England; produced the 1973 Lighthill Report that shaped UK AI funding, and later the Robot Scientist Adam project.
2 milestones
Robot Scientist Adam
In April 2009, researchers at Aberystwyth University and the University of Cambridge published in Science an account of Adam, an automated laboratory system that independently formulated hypotheses about yeast gene function, designed and executed experiments, and interpreted results without human intervention during the cycle.
Lighthill Report on Artificial Intelligence
In 1973, Sir James Lighthill, Lucasian Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, delivered a report to the UK Science Research Council concluding that AI research had failed to meet its stated goals, citing the 'combinatorial explosion' as the decisive technical barrier. The report prompted sharp cuts to UK government funding for AI.