Marvin Minsky Scientist

Marvin Lee Minsky (born August 9, 1927) is an American cognitive scientist in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), co-founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory, and author of several texts on AI and philosophy.

Personal facts

Marvin Minsky
Birth dateAugust 09, 1927
Birth nameMarvin Lee Minsky
Birth place
New York City , United States
Nationality
United States
Education
Princeton University
Harvard University
Phillips Academy
Known for
Artificial intelligence
Transhumanism
Society of Mind
The Emotion Machine
Perceptrons (book)
Useless machine
Confocal microscopy
Triadex Muse

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Scientist

awards
Turing Award
Japan Prize
IJCAI Award for Research Excellence
Benjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute)
doctoral advisor
doctoral student
Danny Hillis
Scott Fahlman
Carl Hewitt
Patrick Winston
Eugene Charniak
David Dalrymple (computer scientist)
Joel Moses
Daniel G. Bobrow
Field of study
Cognitive science
influenced

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External resources

  1. http://necsi.edu/events/iccs/video/iccs2002wednesday/5-minskyclip.html
  2. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-868j-the-society-of-mind-fall-2011
  3. http://purl.umn.edu/107503
  4. http://purl.umn.edu/107717
  5. http://search.proquest.com/docview/301998727
  6. http://sentientdevelopments.blogspot.com/2007/07/when-dvorsky-met-minsky.html
  7. http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky
  8. http://web.mit.edu/echemi/www/031126.html
  9. http://web.mit.edu/echemi/www/index.html
  10. http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/minsky