McCarthy, J., Minsky, M. L., Rochester, N., & Shannon, C. E. (1955). A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence.

The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence was a summer workshop – essentially an extended brainstorming session – held in 1956. It is considered the founding event of artificial intelligence as a field.

John McCarthy, then a young Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Dartmouth College, was interested in organizing a gathering of scholars to clarify and develop ideas about thinking machines. In 1955, McCarthy requested funding for a summer seminar at Dartmouth from the Rockefeller Foundation. The formal proposal, signed by McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, and Claude Shannon, is credited with introducing the term "artificial intelligence".

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