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Marvin Minsky
The artificial-intelligence pioneer who co-founded MIT’s AI laboratory and wrote The Society of Mind.
Perceptrons · Turing Award
- Born
- 9 August 1927
- Birthplace
- United States
- Died
- 24 January 2016
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Marvin Minsky
Marvin Minsky investigated how intelligence might emerge from interacting processes. His work influenced research in perception, learning and representations of knowledge.
Early life
New York
Attended science-focused schools before university.
Mathematics
Studied at Harvard and earned a doctorate at Princeton.
Career
- 1958
MIT
Joined the faculty.
- 1959
AI laboratory
Co-founded the research project that became MIT’s AI laboratory.
- 1980s
Media Lab
Contributed to MIT’s interdisciplinary research environment.
Contributions
Perceptrons
Co-authored an influential analysis of simple neural networks with Seymour Papert.
Turing Award
Recognised his role in artificial intelligence.
The Society of Mind
Argues that intelligence arises from many interacting processes.
Beyond computing
Music
Was an accomplished pianist and interested in musical improvisation.
Invention
Worked on devices including an early confocal scanning microscope.
Sources & photo credit
Life, career and references ↗Career and work — mit.edu ↗Photo: The original uploader was Sethwoodworth at English Wikipedia .. CC BY 3.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
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