Quick Facts About Marvin Minsky
- Born
- August 9, 1927
- Died
- January 24, 2016
- Nationality
- United States
- Profession
- Mathematician
- Notable works
- Perceptrons
- Known for
- Society of Mind, Perceptrons, The Emotion Machine, Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines
- Spouse
- Gloria Minsky
About Marvin Minsky
Marvin Minsky 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.
Biography source:
Wikipedia
Awards & Honors
Turing Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Japan Prize
Dan David Prize
R. W. Wood Prize
Computer Pioneer Award
IJCAI Award for Research Excellence
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
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honorary doctorate
AAAI Fellow
honorary doctor of the Université libre de Bruxelles
Computer History Museum Fellow
honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society
Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
