Marvin Minsky
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.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- New York City
- Educated at
- Harvard UniversityPrinceton UniversityHarvard CollegeBronx High School of SciencePhillips Academy
- Awards
- 🏆 Turing Award🏆 Benjamin Franklin Medal
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Albert W. Tucker
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Manuel Blum
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Trending topics shown first"All intelligent persons also possess some larger-scale frame-systems whose members seemed at first impossibly different — like water with electricity, or poetry with music. Yet many such analogies — a…"
"We'll show you that you can build a mind from many little parts, each mindless by itself."
"Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer."
"You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way."
"In today's computer science curricula … almost all their time is devoted to formal classification of syntactic language types, defeatist unsolvability theories, folklore about systems programming, and…"
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1927
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