Here is some History of Artificial Intelligence:

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Short AI Timeline:

    1950 - Alan Turing proposes the Turing Test as a measure of machine intelligence.

    1955 - John McCarthy coined the term "Artificial Intelligence" in 1956 at a conference at Dartmouth College.

    1956 - Logic Theorist (A Program also known as LT) was written by Allen Newell, J.C. Shaw and Herbert Simon                Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie Mellon University)

    1952-62 - Arthur Samuel (IBM) wrote the first game-playing program, checkers.

    1958 - John McCarthy (MIT) invented the Lisp language.

    1959 - John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky founded the MIT AI Lab.

    1963 - Edward A. Feigenbaum & Julian Feldman published Computers and Thought, the first collection of articles                about artificial intelligence.

    1965 - Joseph Weizenbaum (from MIT) built the psychotherapist program named ELIZA.  ELIZA was an interactive                program that carried on a conversation with a person and acted as a therapist for them to talk to.

    1973 - The Assembly Robotics Group at University of Edinburgh builds Freddy Robot, in which uses visual
               perception to locate and assemble models.

    1996 - Deep Blue (A chess playing computer system) won it's first match of chess against the reigning chess                champion.  Although it did lose overall, the system did end up beating him in 2 games.

    2005 - Honda comes out with ASIMO which is an intelligent humanoid robot that can walk as fast as a human,
               run, do different human actions, and deliver trays of food.