AI milestones in 1987
2 documented milestones from 1987.
NETtalk Neural Network Developed by Terrence J. Sejnowski and Charles Rosenberg
Terrence J. Sejnowski of the Salk Institute and Charles Rosenberg of Princeton University developed NETtalk, a feedforward neural network trained to convert English text to speech, publishing the principal account in Complex Systems in 1987. The network learned pronunciation from examples alone, demonstrating that a multi-layer perceptron could acquire a complex linguistic skill without hand-coded rules.
Second AI Winter
From approximately 1987 to 1993, AI research entered a second sustained contraction as commercial expert-system vendors collapsed, the Lisp machine market failed, and DARPA substantially reduced funding for AI programmes following unmet expectations from the preceding boom.