timeline

people and readings

1600

• 1687 Newton's Principia

1700

• 1749–1827 Laplace
• 1766-1834 Malthus
• 1777-1855 Gauss
• 1792-1793 Condorcet
• 1796-1874 Quetelet

1800

• 1822-1911 Galton
• 1824-1880 Broca
• 1835 Quetelet's Treatise on Man
• 1857-1936 Karl Pearson
• 1858-1917 Durkheim
• 1859 Darwin's Origin of Species
• 1863-1945 Charles Spearman (Rank correlation: 1904)
• 1877 Galton's On typical laws of heredity
• 1885 Galton's Regression towards Mediocrity in Hereditary Science presented, September 10
• 1890-1962 R A Fisher
• 1894-1981 Jerzy Neyman
• 1895-1980 Egon Pearson

1900

• 1911 Pearson's Grammar of Science, 3rd edition, discusses correlations
• 1915-2000 Tukey
• 1936 Church and Turing
• 1943 McCulloch-Pitts
• 1948 First randomized controlled trial
• 1952 Claude Shannon's Theseus (machine learning mouse)
• 1956 Dartmouth Artificial Intelligence meeting
• 1962 Tukey's FoDA
• 1964 ALPAC report in US (cf. AI Winter, US)
• 1974 Lighthill Debate (cf. AI Winter, UK)
• 1981 Gould's Mismeasure of Man (updated 1996)
• 1993 Desrosiers's Politics of Large Numbers (In class we're following the 2002 translation)

2000

• 2008 Igo's Averaged american
• 2015 Deep plays Atari
• 2015 Bouk's How our days became numbered