Marvin Minsky

Marvin Minsky
Minsky in 2008
Born
Marvin Lee Minsky

(1927-08-09)August 9, 1927
New York City, New York, U.S.
DiedJanuary 24, 2016(2016-01-24) (aged 88)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
EducationHarvard University (BA)
Princeton University (MA, PhD)
Known for
Spouse
Gloria Rudisch
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(m. 1952)​
Children3
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsMassachusetts Institute of Technology
ThesisTheory of Neural-Analog Reinforcement Systems and Its Application to the Brain Model Problem (1954)
Doctoral advisorAlbert W. Tucker[2][3]
Doctoral students
Websiteweb.media.mit.edu/~minsky

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.[12][13][14][15]

Minsky received many accolades and honors, including the 1969 Turing Award.

  1. ^ "Elected AAAI Fellows". www.aaai.org.
  2. ^ Marvin Lee Minsky at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Marvin Lee Minsky at the AI Genealogy Project.
  4. ^ "Personal page for Marvin Minsky". web.media.mit.edu. Retrieved June 23, 2016.
  5. ^ Minsky, Marvin (1961). "Steps toward Artificial Intelligence" (PDF). Proceedings of the IRE. 49: 8–30. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.79.7413. doi:10.1109/JRPROC.1961.287775. S2CID 14250548.
  6. ^ Minsky, Marvin (1988). "Memoir on inventing the confocal scanning microscope". Scanning. 10 (4): 128–138. doi:10.1002/sca.4950100403.
  7. ^ Pesta, A (March 12, 2014). "Looking for Something Useful to Do With Your Time? Don't Try This". WSJ. Retrieved March 24, 2014.
  8. ^ Hillis, Danny; McCarthy, John; Mitchell, Tom M.; Mueller, Erik T.; Riecken, Doug; Sloman, Aaron; Winston, Patrick Henry (2007). "In Honor of Marvin Minsky's Contributions on his 80th Birthday". AI Magazine. 28 (4): 109. doi:10.1609/aimag.v28i4.2064.
  9. ^ Papert, Seymour; Minsky, Marvin Lee (1988). Perceptrons: an introduction to computational geometry. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-63111-2.
  10. ^ Minsky, Marvin Lee (1986). The Society of Mind. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-671-60740-1. The first comprehensive description of the Society of Mind theory of intellectual structure and development. See also The Society of Mind (CD-ROM version), Voyager, 1996.
  11. ^ Minsky, Marvin Lee (2007). The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-7664-1.
  12. ^ Marvin Minsky at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata
  13. ^ Marvin Minsky publications indexed by Microsoft Academic
  14. ^ "Google Scholar". scholar.google.com.
  15. ^ Winston, Patrick Henry (2016). "Marvin L. Minsky (1927–2016)". Nature. 530 (7590): 282. Bibcode:2016Natur.530..282W. doi:10.1038/530282a. PMID 26887486.