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'''Marvin Lee Minsky''' (1927-2016) was an American cognitive and computer scientist. | |||
Marvin Lee Minsky (1927-) | |||
== Life == | |||
'''Marvin Lee Minsky''' was born on August 9, 1927 in New York city. He received a BA in mathematics from Harvard University in 1950 and a Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1954. He was a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows from 1954 to 1957, then on the MIT faculty from 1958 until his death. In 1959 he n 1958; a year later, he and John McCarthy initiated what was later named the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. | |||
He died on January 24, 2016 in Boston, Massachusetts. | |||
== Contributions == | == Contributions == | ||
Minsky was interested in artificial intelligence. He built the Snarc - one of the 1st electronic learning machines. He was co-founder and director of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab 1959. He has worked at MIT since 1957. He established General Turtle Inc. and Thinking Machines Corporation. According to Feigenbaum and Feldman, "Minsky's work has been integral to the establishment of...artificial intelligence...the mathematical theory of computation...robotics, computer vision, and telepresence" (Current Biography). He was interested in the principle of artificial intelligence in which computers mimic psychological processes. Minsky wrote The Society of Mind. | Minsky was interested in artificial intelligence. He built the Snarc - one of the 1st electronic learning machines. He was co-founder and director of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab 1959. He has worked at MIT since 1957. He established General Turtle Inc. and Thinking Machines Corporation. According to Feigenbaum and Feldman, "Minsky's work has been integral to the establishment of...artificial intelligence...the mathematical theory of computation...robotics, computer vision, and telepresence" (Current Biography). He was interested in the principle of artificial intelligence in which computers mimic psychological processes. Minsky wrote The Society of Mind. | ||
== Publications == | |||
Numerous publications are listed by dbpl [https://dblp.org/pid/m/MarvinMinsky.html] and Google Scholar [https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Marvin+Minsky]. | |||
* | *''Oral history interview with Marvin L. Minsky.'' University of Minnesota. Charles Babbage Institute, 1989. [https://conservancy.umn.edu/items/90431752-a945-492f-b04f-e1ab7187360c] | ||
== Offices == | == Offices == | ||
*Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. President, 1981-82. | |||
== Awards == | |||
*Association for Computing Machinery. Turing Award, 1970. | |||
* | == Further reading == | ||
*"Marvin Minsky." ''Wikipedia'' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Minsky] | |||
Revision as of 16:26, 17 April 2025
Marvin Lee Minsky (1927-2016) was an American cognitive and computer scientist.
Life
Marvin Lee Minsky was born on August 9, 1927 in New York city. He received a BA in mathematics from Harvard University in 1950 and a Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1954. He was a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows from 1954 to 1957, then on the MIT faculty from 1958 until his death. In 1959 he n 1958; a year later, he and John McCarthy initiated what was later named the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He died on January 24, 2016 in Boston, Massachusetts.
Contributions
Minsky was interested in artificial intelligence. He built the Snarc - one of the 1st electronic learning machines. He was co-founder and director of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab 1959. He has worked at MIT since 1957. He established General Turtle Inc. and Thinking Machines Corporation. According to Feigenbaum and Feldman, "Minsky's work has been integral to the establishment of...artificial intelligence...the mathematical theory of computation...robotics, computer vision, and telepresence" (Current Biography). He was interested in the principle of artificial intelligence in which computers mimic psychological processes. Minsky wrote The Society of Mind.
Publications
Numerous publications are listed by dbpl [1] and Google Scholar [2].
- Oral history interview with Marvin L. Minsky. University of Minnesota. Charles Babbage Institute, 1989. [3]
Offices
- Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. President, 1981-82.
Awards
- Association for Computing Machinery. Turing Award, 1970.
Further reading
- "Marvin Minsky." Wikipedia [4]