Nearly 50 years of AI at ASU (opens in new tab)

Story by Ellen ShengWhen Professor Subbarao Kambhampati started working in the field of artificial intelligence in 1983, his friends and colleagues felt sorry for him. People asked, “Why can’t you do something more useful, such as databases, such as software engineering?” he recalls. At the time, “AI was an intellectual discipline that didn’t yet have perceivable benefits right away.”