Artificial intelligence (co-founding)
Who
Marvin Minsky, a Jewish American cognitive scientist, among the founders of the field (alongside non-Jewish colleagues such as John McCarthy).
When
1956
Where
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States
Artificial intelligence emerged as a formal field at the 1956 Dartmouth workshop, which set out to make machines that reason and learn. Marvin Minsky was a co-organizer and later co-founded the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, shaping the discipline for decades. Minsky was Jewish; the field was founded collaboratively, and several of its other pioneers were not Jewish.
Sources
Part of “The Gifts of the Jews” — verified Jewish contributions to the world, with sources.