LOTS OF AI were built (jan 1, 1980 – jan 1, 1989)

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Dean Pomerleau at CMU creates ALVINN (An Autonomous Land Vehicle in a Neural Network).
Commercial launch of generation 2.0 of Alacrity by Alacritous Inc./Allstar Advice Inc. Toronto, the first commercial strategic and managerial advisory system
Rodney Brooks introduced the subsumption architecture and behavior-based robotics as a more minimalist modular model of natural intelligence; Nouvelle AI.
The autonomous drawing program, AARON, created by Harold Cohen, is demonstrated at the AAAI National Conference
James F. Allen invents the Interval Calculus, the first widely used formalization of temporal events.
John Laird and Paul Rosenbloom, working with Allen Newell, complete CMU dissertations on Soar (program).

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