Minsky, Marvin Pioneers History

Minsky, Marvin Pioneers History

Minsky, Marvin

One of the oldest leading figures in artificial intelligence research, considered by some the father of AI. A founder of: MIT AI Lab, MIT Media Lab, open source/content Open Mind Commensense project. Author: many books, including the influential and accessible 'The Society of Mind'. Inventions: mechanical hands and other robotic devices, confocal scanning microscope, Muse synthesizer for musical variations (with E. Fredkin), first LOGO turtle (with S. Papert). Member: NAS, NAE and Argentine NAS. Awards: ACM Turing Award, MIT Killian Award, the Japan Prize, IJCAI Research Excellence Award, Rank Prize for Optoelectronics.

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See Also:

- Page with picture, and link to the document, which attempts to explain why people become confused by questions about the relation between mental and physical events.
- Some thoughts on applying Minsky's 'The Society of Mind' to creating a music-based artistic experience.
- From the online book, edited by David G. Stork: Hal's Legacy: 2001's Computer as Dream and Reality.
- Stories involving Minsky.
- Article published in 'Machinery of Consciousness', Proceedings, National Research Council of Canada, 75th Anniversary Symposium on Science in Society, June 1991. On the Mark Hughes website.
- One of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, and cognitive psychology, also work in mathematics, computational linguistics, robotics, optics. MIT.
- If two minds are better than one, then how about two thousand? Positive review with references. On EMC/Paradigm Publishing website.
- Thought provoking; part of some pages on home schooling.
- Links to some of his many books and papers: some downloadable.

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