A workshop held in 1956 at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, is usually considered the beginning of artificial intelligence. Participants included John McCarthy and Marvin Minski. Alan Turing and Konrad Zuse, who already dealt with this topic in the 1940s, are also mentioned as the founders of this discipline. For decades, machine chess was considered the highlight of artificial intelligence. It was not until 1997 that IBM's Deep Blue program was able to beat then-world chess champion Garry Kasparov.

Today I was invited to give a KeyNote Lecture about Artificial Intelligence in the beautiful city of Zaragoza, by Javier Khunel the CEO of the main business school there, media group Heraldo and CaixaBank, to a diverse audience of business owners, entrepreneurs, c level execs, intrapreneurs and many more, at a great venue The CaixaForum building. I have been in the field for the last 21 years, and the last ones as clear advocate of AI and Deep Learning, with a company in the field, and advising Emotiv Inc the Leader in Brain Computer Interfaces about Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. So it is fair to say that I play in a field I know very well. Anyway I always get my facts and figures up to date, and to my surprise I discover an amazing fact: the father of Artificial Intelligence according to the MIT Technology Review is from my own backyard so to speak, from the country I was born Spain. He develop a machine in 1912 called "El Ajedrecista" or "The Chess Player" a very limited precursor of IBM's Deep Blue, and the first true chess computer, but by all means a pioneer (electro mechanical) work in the Artificial Intelligence field, he also build an Algebraic Formula Machine and many other mostly unknown marvels.