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== Life == | |||
Marvin Lee Minsky (1927-) | |||
A detailed page on him appears in Wikipedia at: <nowiki>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Minsky</nowiki> | |||
== Relevant Employment == | |||
* MIT | |||
== 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. | |||
An oral history interview with him was conducted in 1989 by the Babbage Institute; details about it are at: <nowiki>http://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/107503</nowiki> | |||
== Awards == | |||
* 1970 Turing Award (ACM) | |||
== Offices == | |||
* AAAI Pres. 1981-82 | |||
Revision as of 02:24, 15 August 2023
Life
Marvin Lee Minsky (1927-)
A detailed page on him appears in Wikipedia at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Minsky
Relevant Employment
- MIT
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.
An oral history interview with him was conducted in 1989 by the Babbage Institute; details about it are at: http://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/107503
Awards
- 1970 Turing Award (ACM)
Offices
- AAAI Pres. 1981-82