Event date:
Wednesday 11 December to Thursday 12 December
CISA Lunch
Date: Wednesday 11th December
Time: 1pm
Venue: Room 3.02, IF
Speaker: Alan Bundy
Title:
The Lighthill Report on Artificial Intelligence
Abstract:
In 1973 the Science Research Council (predecessor of EPSRC) invited Sir James Lighthill, an applied mathematician from Cambridge University, to prepare a report on the state of Artificial Intelligence. The resulting report was very controversial and extremely negative. It led to a drastic reduction in funding for AI, not just in the UK, but across the World - the, so called, AI Winter. I had just come to Edinburgh in 1971 so, as a young AI researcher, I have vivid memories of this period. At the request of Jacques Fleuriot, I will give a personal account of it.