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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.
Jan 25, 2016 · Minsky was a co-founder of CSAIL and a founding member of the Media Lab, where he taught and mentored until recently. He received the Turing Award and other honors for his contributions to artificial intelligence, neural networks, and music.
Apr 25, 2024 · Marvin Minsky 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 work in AI. Following service in the U.S. Navy.
- Michael Aaron Dennis
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, work that helped inspire the creation of...
Feb 17, 2016 · A founding father of artificial intelligence. Marvin Lee Minsky had no patience for those who doubted that computers could be intelligent at a human level or beyond. In the late 1950s, building...
- Patrick Henry Winston
- phw@mit.edu
- 2016
Learn about Marvin Minsky, one of the most influential and productive cognitive scientists of the century, who developed the Society of Mind theory and founded the MIT AI Lab. Watch his TED talk on health and the human mind, and explore his books and projects.
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Jan 26, 2016 · MARVIN MINSKY: I'm Marvin Minsky, and I teach at MIT in the subjects of theories about how to make machines that are intelligent - whatever that means.
