Marvin Minsky vs. Buckminster Fuller
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Marvin Minsky
1927 – 2016
Marvin Minsky was a Harvard- and Princeton-trained American mathematician who used his training as a foundation for 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.
"All intelligent persons also possess some larger-scale frame-systems whose members seemed at first impossibly different — like water with electricity, or poetry…"
Buckminster Fuller
1895 – 1983
Richard Buckminster Fuller Jr. was an American architect, systems theorist, writer, designer, inventor, philosopher, and futurist. He styled his name as R.
"Life is the spirit incarnate in time."
Connections
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