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Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. Organised by. John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, and Claude Shannon. Participants. John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, Claude Shannon, and others. The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence was a 1956 summer workshop widely considered [1][2][3] to be ...
The First-Year Experience Program. The First-Year Experience (FYE) (also known as the Freshman-Year Experience or the Freshman Seminar Program) is a program at many American colleges and universities designed to help students prepare for the transition from high school to college. FYE programs often foster the participation of students in co ...
The Association of American Universities (AAU) is an organization of American research universities devoted to maintaining a strong system of academic research and education. Founded in 1900, it consists of 69 public and private universities in the United States as well as two universities in Canada. AAU membership is by invitation only and ...
Seminar. A seminar is a form of academic instruction, either at an academic institution or offered by a commercial or professional organization. It has the function of bringing together small groups for recurring meetings, focusing each time on some particular subject, in which everyone present is requested to participate.
A capstone course, also known as a synthesis and capstone project, senior synthesis, among other terms, is a project that serves as the culminating and usually integrative praxis experience of an educational program mostly found in American-style pedagogy. Although somewhat different from an industry-oriented capstone project, case study, case ...
Active. TED Conferences, LLC (Technology, Entertainment, Design[7]) is an American-Canadian non-profit [7] media organization that posts international talks online for free distribution under the slogan "ideas worth spreading". [8] It was founded by Richard Saul Wurman and Harry Marks in February 1984 [2] as a technology conference, in which ...
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international non-governmental organization, think tank, and lobbying organisation [ 1 ][ 2 ] based in Cologny, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded on 24 January 1971 by German engineer Klaus Schwab. The foundation, which is mostly funded by its 1,000 member companies [ 3 ] – typically global ...
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. (ΑΚΑ) is the first intercollegiate historically African American sorority. [3] The sorority was founded on January 15, 1908, at the historically black Howard University in Washington, D.C., by a group of sixteen students led by Ethel Hedgemon Lyle. Forming a sorority broke barriers for African American women ...