Reading list

• What is Artificial Intelligence, John McCarthy, 2007
• Computing Machinery and Intelligence A. M. Turing, Mind 49: 433-460 (1950). Some tables are deleted
  A PDF version
  Another version with tables not deleted, but more difficult to read
  
• A PROPOSAL FOR THE DARTMOUTH SUMMER RESEARCH PROJECT ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, August 31, 1955
• Programs with Common Sense, John McCarthy, 1959
• Computer Science as Empirical Inquiry: Symbols and Search, Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon, Communications of the ACM. vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 113-126, March,1976.
Physical symbol system from Wikipedia with a discussion
The Physical Symbol System Hypothesis: Status and Prospects by Nils J. Nillson

• The Chinese Room Argument, John R. Searle, 1980
• Minds, Machines and Searle, Stevan Harnad. Minds, Machines and Searle. Journal of Theoretical and Experimental Artificial Intelligence 1: 5-25.(1989)
• Is the Brain a Digital Computer?, John R. Searle. Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, Vol. 64, No. 3 (Nov., 1990), pp. 21-37
• Conscious Machines, Marvin Minsky, June 1991
• Consciousness in Human and Robot Minds, Daniel C. Dennett, 1994
• The Mind as the Software of the Brain, Ned Block. Chapter 11 in An Invitation to Cognitive Science. 2nd ed. Vol. 3. Edited by Daniel N. Osherson and Edward E. Smith. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995
• What has AI in Common with Philosophy?, John McCarthy, 1996
• Making Robots Conscious of their Mental States, John McCarthy, 1995 - 2002
• E. Feigenbaum. Some Challenges and Grand Challenges for Computational Intelligence, Journal of the ACM, Vol. 50, No. 1, January 2003.

There are thousands of pages on the Web related to AI topics. I have listed only five among them - valuable sources of information on various AI topics.

• AI on the Web, a collection of references to various AI topics
• http://www.tau.ac.il/humanities/philos/ai/links.html, another collection of references to various AI topics
• The American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
• AI topics, a dynamic library of introductory information about AI, provided by AAAI
• IEEE Inteligent Systems, journal articles
• A panel discussion about the latest developments in Artificial Intelligence
  with Rodney Brooks of MIT, Eric Horvitz of Microsoft Research and Ron Brachman of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (video)

Some other sites:

Knowledge representation

• What is a Knowledge Representation?
• John F. Sowa, Knowledge Representation: Logical, Philosophical, and Computational Foundations an on-line book
• Programs with Common Sense, John McCarthy 1959
• A Framework for Representing Knowledge, Marvin Minsky 1974
• Turing’s Dream and the Knowledge Challenge, video
• Computers versus Common Sense Video (May 30, 2006; 1 hour, 15 minutes) from Google TechTalks
• The Cyc Common Sense multi-contextual knowledge base

Expert systems

• http://www.pcai.com/web/ai_info/expert_systems.html
• http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/

Robots at MIT

• http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/humanoid-robotics-group/
• Interview with Marvin Minsky (MIT) on robots

Eliza sites:

• http://www.parnasse.com/drwww.shtml
• http://www-ai.ijs.si/eliza/eliza.html

Famous explorers in AI

• Allen Newell
• John McCarthy
• Marvin Minsky