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When was the AI Project founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology?
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The AI Project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was founded in 1959 by John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky.12
The project, which later became a preeminent research center for the field of artificial intelligence, eventually merged with the Laboratory for Computer Science in 2003 to form the Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).12