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  1. Marvin Lee Minsky (August 9, 1927 – January 24, 2016) was an American cognitive and computer scientist concerned largely with research of artificial intelligence (AI). He co-founded the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 's AI laboratory and wrote several texts concerning AI and philosophy.

  2. Apr 25, 2024 · Marvin Minsky (born August 9, 1927, New York, New York, U.S.—died January 24, 2016, Boston, Massachusetts) was an 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 science, for his pioneering ...

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  3. Jan 25, 2016 · Prof. emeritus Marvin Minsky, one of the founders of the field of artificial intelligence, died Sunday at age 88, reports Glenn Rifkin for The New York Times. Rifkin writes that Minsky “combined a scientist’s thirst for knowledge with a philosopher’s quest for truth as a pioneering explorer of artificial intelligence.”

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  5. Feb 17, 2016 · In 1961, Minsky published his famous paper 'Steps toward artificial intelligence' (M. Minsky Proc. IRE 49, 8–30; 1961), a call to arms for a generation of researchers. Scientists flocked to ...

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    • 2016
  6. 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. His conception of human intellectual structure and function is presented in two books: The Emotion ...

  7. Jan 25, 2016 · M.I.T. By Glenn Rifkin. Jan. 25, 2016. Marvin Minsky, who combined a scientist’s thirst for knowledge with a philosopher’s quest for truth as a pioneering explorer of artificial intelligence ...

  8. 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 ...

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