AI Summers, AI Winters & the Rise of Modern AI

On 7 January 1954 an IBM 701 translated more than sixty Russian sentences into English in a public demonstration. Its program knew 250 words and six grammar rules. IBM's announcement quoted Léon Dostert, the Georgetown University linguist who led the work: "five, perhaps three, years hence, interlingual meaning conversion by electronic process in important functional areas of several languages may well be an accomplished fact."