{"id":217625,"date":"2026-05-20T18:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T22:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/nearly-50-years-of-ai-at-asu\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T19:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T23:20:13","slug":"nearly-50-years-of-ai-at-asu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/nearly-50-years-of-ai-at-asu\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 50 years of AI at ASU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/20260520-science-and-technology-nearly-50-years-ai-asu\">Nearly 50 years of AI at ASU<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/20260520-science-and-technology-nearly-50-years-ai-asu\">https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/20260520-science-and-technology-nearly-50-years-ai-asu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-20 18:07:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"news.asu.edu\">news.asu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a summary of the article using an unordered list highlighting the key points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Early Beginnings of AI Research<\/strong>: When AI began in 1983, it lacked immediate practical benefits, drawing skepticism from peers who encouraged more practical fields like databases.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>The ASU Pioneers<\/strong>: Faculty at Arizona State University (ASU) played critical roles in shaping AI over decades, emphasizing foundational work in areas like machine learning and social media data mining.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Knowledge Calculus Development<\/strong>: Chitta Baral developed a &#8220;knowledge calculus&#8221; to teach machines flexible reasoning, a solution to AI&#8217;s brittleness with rigid mathematical logic.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Feature Selection and Planning<\/strong>: Huan Liu contributed to AI&#8217;s ability to focus on relevant data through feature selection, while Subbarao Kambhampati worked on automated planning to avoid catastrophic mistakes in AI systems.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Application in Public Safety<\/strong>: Ross Maciejewski collaborated with various agencies to use AI for analyzing emergency data and developing security protocols.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Current ASU Efforts<\/strong>: ASU now trains the next generation of AI leaders and professionals while contributing to various fields, including medical discovery, transport safety, and cybercriminal tracking.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI\u2019s Philosophical Relevance<\/strong>: For researchers like Kambhampati, AI\u2019s ultimate aim is to tackle fundamental questions of human intelligence.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This summary captures the pivotal roles and continuous efforts in AI research at ASU, setting the stage for AI&#8217;s current prominence and future innovations.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 50 years of AI at ASU https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/20260520-science-and-technology-nearly-50-years-ai-asu Publish Date: 2026-05-20 18:07:00 Source Domain: news.asu.edu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217626,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-05\/260515%20ASU%20Thrive%20SUMMER%202026%20issue%20%E2%80%93%208%20%E2%80%93%20AI%20at%20ASU%20%E2%80%93%202400x1350%20ASU%20News%20ARTICLE%20lead%20photo%208.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217627,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217625\/revisions\/217627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}