Marvin Lee Minsky (August 9, 1927 – January 24, 2016) was an American cognitive and computer scientist concerned largely with research of artificial intelligence (AI), co-founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory, and author of several texts concerning AI and philosophy.
- Marvin Lee Minsky, August 9, 1927, New York City, New York, U.S.
- Albert W. Tucker
- January 24, 2016 (aged 88), Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
- Phillips Academy
Marvin Minsky has made many contributions to AI, cognitive psychology, mathematics, computational linguistics, robotics, and optics. In recent years he has worked chiefly on imparting to machines the human capacity for commonsense reasoning.
Jan 20, 2023 · Marvin Minsky, in full Marvin Lee Minsky, (born August 9, 1927, New York, New York, U.S.—died January 24, 2016, Boston, Massachusetts), American mathematician and computer scientist, one of the most famous practitioners of the science of artificial intelligence (AI). Minsky won the 1969 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer ...
- Michael Aaron Dennis
Aug 9, 2019 · A pivotal member of MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Lab, Marvin Minsky pioneered early self-training algorithms, most notably in his 1969 book Perceptrons. He also developed the first head-mounted...
Jan 25, 2016 · Marvin Minsky, a mathematician, computer scientist, and pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence, died at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital on Sunday, Jan. 24, of a cerebral hemorrhage. He was 88. Minsky, a professor emeritus at the MIT Media Lab, was a pioneering thinker and the foremost expert on the theory of artificial ...
Marvin Minsky is the superstar-elder of artificial intelligence, one of the most productive and important cognitive scientists of the century, and the leading proponent of the Society of Mind theory. Articulated in his 1985 book of the same name, Minsky's theory says intelligence is not born of any single mechanism, but from the interaction of ...
Jan 20, 2016 · Mathematician, inventor, visionary and philosopher, Marvin Minsky built the first neural network device as a graduate student at Princeton. His theoretical writings of the 1950s and early ‘60s became the basis for virtually all subsequent research in artificial intelligence (AI).