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This is a lovely one. To some people Logo will not only be some programming language, but it might even have been the first step on their way to computer science. With its founding year 1967 it has a few years under its belt. But it became really interesting for Logo, when home computing became a thing at the end of the 70s.

For those who can still remember the first, simple Logo experiments, the combination of Logo with the topic of AI will initially seem a bit weird. 😳

But believe it or not, already in the 70s (and certainly before) people were dealing with the topic of AI. We discovered a very nice proof of that online thanks to the team at the Edinburgh Computer History Project:

To Artificial Intelligence is a scan of the 1976 book by A. Bundy, R.M. Burstall, S. Weir and R.M. Young. The examples in the book are a little rough around the edges as far as political correctness is concerned. But that shouldn't give the historically educated reader a headache, since it’s more or less a shadow  of "Zeitgeist". There are quite a few things to learn, that are not necessarily only related to Logo.

A wonderful piece of instructive history. And since the .htaccess of the underlying server is not designed restrictively, there is a ton of other material to be found while browsing.