Article ID: CBB303995021

The “KI-Rundbrief,” Its Editors, and Its Community: A Perspective on West German AI, 1975–1987 (2023)

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The “KI-Rundbrief” (AI newsletter) of the AI specialist group in the German Informatics Society is considered central to the emerging West German AI community. It was mailed out between 1975 and 1987, when it was turned into the journal Künstliche Intelligenz. Despite its presumed centrality, it has not been studied in detail. This article combines a quantitative analysis of which research was published in the newsletter heuristically with a qualitative analysis looking at the role of the newsletter and its editors. It focuses especially on the subject areas deduction, natural language processing, expert systems, image processing, and cognitive science, showing that the newsletter only partially represents artificial intelligence research in the Federal Republic of Germany.

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Authors & Contributors
Plutniak, Sébastien
Baldwin, Melinda Clare
Beckman, Jenny
Casper, Christian Fredrick
Christie, Maureen
Connor, J. T. H.
Journals
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
Social Studies of Science
Bulletin for the History of Chemistry
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Central European History
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Publishers
Steiner
North Carolina State University
Concepts
Communication within scientific contexts
Scholarly publishing
Societies; institutions; academies
Periodicals; serials
Scientific communities; interprofessional relations
Publishers and publishing
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
19th century
20th century
17th century
20th century, early
Places
West Germany
Europe
Great Britain
East Germany
Australia
Italy
Institutions
American Chemical Society
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften
Rockefeller Foundation
Royal Society of London
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
American Phytopathological Society
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