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Marvin Minsky

Also known as Marvin Lee Minsky, Marvin L. Minsky

American cognitive scientist (1927-2016)

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Marvin Minsky was an American cognitive scientist who lived from 1927 to 2016 and made major contributions to the field of artificial intelligence. His work on how the mind processes information and his pioneering research in AI helped shape our understanding of intelligence itself and influenced decades of computer science development.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1927
Died: 2016
Works: 14

Top works

Turing Option
Perceptrons
Semantic Information Processing
Inventive Minds: Marvin Minsky on Education (The MIT Press)
The emotion machine

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Type: Person
Country: US
Active from: 1927-08-09
Active to: 2016-01-24

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 471
Total plays: 770

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,517x
Circular RNAs are a large class of animal RNAs with regulatory potency
· 2013 · cited 6,735x
The Fusiform Face Area: A Module in Human Extrastriate Cortex Specialized for Face Perception
· 1997 · cited 6,137x
Energy Gaps in Graphene Nanoribbons
· 2006 · cited 4,596x
Effectiveness of Antipsychotic Drugs in Patients with Chronic Schizophrenia
· 2005 · cited 4,531x

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Quotes

“Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.”
“Speed is what distinguishes intelligence. No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to 'discover' that – where merely hundreds of person-years sufficed.”
“Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.”
“When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.”
“An ethicist is someone who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.”
“You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.”

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Wikidata facts

Official website: web.media.mit.edu/~minsky
Image: Marvin Minsky at OLPC.jpg

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Commons category: Marvin Minsky
date of birth: 1927-08-09
Erdős number: 4
date of death: 2016-01-24
described at URL: web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/minskybiog.html
name in native language: Marvin Lee Minsky

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Article

Marvin Minsky (August 9, 1927 – January 24, 2016) was an American mathematician who did research in cognitive and computer science aspects of artificial intelligence (AI). After three years as a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows, Minsky joined the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1958 and spent the rest of his career at that institution. There, he co-founded MIT's AI laboratory, among other initiatives, and wrote extensively about AI and philosophy. He, computer scientist John McCarthy, and others have been called the "fathers of AI". At the time he was made emeritus, Minsky was the Toshiba Professor of Media Art & Sciences at MIT.

Minsky received many accolades and honors for his work, including the ACM Turing Award in 1969, the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 1982, the Japan Prize in 1990, the Benjamin Franklin Medal in 2001, and of the past-present-future trio of Dan David Prizes in 2014, the "Future"-oriented prize for "Artificial Intelligence, the Digital Mind". He was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1973 and the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 1989, and was inducted into IEEE Intelligent Systems' AI Hall of Fame for contributions to AI and intelligent systems in 2011.