AI milestones in 1964
2 documented milestones from 1964.
STUDENT: Daniel G. Bobrow's Natural Language Algebra Problem Solver
In 1964, Daniel G. Bobrow, then a doctoral student at MIT, completed STUDENT, a LISP-based program that read English-language algebra word problems and solved them symbolically. It was among the earliest demonstrations that a computer could parse and act on natural-language mathematical statements.
SIR (Semantic Information Retrieval) by Bertram Raphael, MIT
In 1964, Bertram Raphael at MIT completed his doctoral thesis describing SIR (Semantic Information Retrieval), a LISP program that answered English-language questions about simple relational facts by constructing an internal semantic model. It was an early demonstration that a computer could parse and reason over a restricted subset of natural language.