![]() ![]() The talks-on everything from cybernetics to logic theory-went on for weeks, in an atmosphere of growing excitement. “People didn’t agree on what it was, how to do it or even what to call it,” Grace Solomonoff, the widow of one of the scientists, recalled later. Most of them settled into the red-bricked Hanover Inn, then strolled through the famously beautiful campus to the top floor of the math department, where groups of white-shirted men were already engaged in discussions of a “strange new discipline”-so new, in fact, that it didn’t even have a name. In June of 1956, A few dozen scientists and mathematicians from all around the country gathered for a meeting on the campus of Dartmouth College. Stephan Talty, illustrations by Jules Julien
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