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Marvin Minsky in 2008^[1]

Marvin Lee Minsky, (August 9, 1927 - January 24, 2016^[2])
was an American mathematician, philosopher,cognitive scientist, and pioneer in the field ofartificial intelligence. Along withJohn McCarthy, he co-founded theMassachusetts Institute of Technology'sAI laboratory. In 1951, Minsky built the first randomly wiredneural networklearning machine,SNARC, and in 1969, along withSeymour Papert authoredPerceptrons, which became the foundational work in the analysis of artificial neural networks^[3], also refered asthe abandonment ofconnectionism, a controversy in the history of AI concerning thePerceptron and its main researcherFrank Rosenblatt^[4].

HAL 9000

Marvin Minsky andJack Good were adviser of the 1968Arthur C. Clarke andStanley Kubrick film2001: A Space Odyssey, concerningSelf-replicating machine andHAL 9000, theHeuristically programmedALgorithmic computer, and were referred to both in the movie and the book^[5][6].

Selected Publications

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1950 ...

• Marvin Minsky (1954).Neural Nets and the Brain Model Problem. Ph.D. dissertation,Princeton University
• John McCarthy,Marvin Minsky,Nathaniel Rochester,Claude Shannon (1955).A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence.

1960 ...

• Marvin Minsky (1967).Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines.Prentice-Hall, ISBN:0-13-165563-9
• Marvin Minsky,Seymour Papert (1969).Perceptrons.^[9][10]

1970 ...

• Marvin Minsky,Seymour Papert (1972).Perceptrons: An Introduction to Computational Geometry.The MIT Press, 2nd edition with corrections
• Marvin Minsky (1974).Framework for Representing Knowledge 1974.MIT-AI Laboratory Memo 306

1980 ...

• Marvin Minsky (1980).K-Lines: A Theory of Memory. Cognitive Science 4, 117-133,pdf^[11]
• Marvin Minsky (1986).The Society of Mind.Simon & Schuster^[12]
• Marvin Minsky (1988).Why People Think Computers Can't.MIT

2000 ...

• Pamela McCorduck (2004).Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence.A. K. Peters (25th anniversary edition)
• Marvin Minsky (2006).The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind.Simon & Schuster^[13]
• Corey Ziegler Hunts, Julian Ziegler Hunts,Bill Gosper,Jack Holloway (2010).Minskys & Trinskys. 3rd edition,Minsky files by Bill Gosper^[14]
• Patrick Henry Winston (2016).Marvin L. Minsky (1927-2016).Nature, Vol. 530

Forum Posts

• Marvin Minsky and the look-ahead efficiency in chess byJulien Marcel,CCC, February 06, 2012

External Links

• Marvin Minsky from Wikipedia
• Marvin Minsky - Wikiquote
• Marvin Minsky's Home Page
• Marvin L. Minsky | MIT Media Lab
• Marvin Minsky essays -OLPC
• Marvin Minsky | 1995 Computer Pioneer Award fromIEEE Computer Society Awards
• Marvin Minsky, “father of artificial intelligence,” dies at 88 | MIT News, January 25, 2016
• Marvin Minsky, Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88 byGlenn Rifkin,The New York Times, January 25, 2016
• AI pioneer Marvin Minsky dies at 88 byFrederic Friedel,ChessBase News, January 27, 2016
• Ed Fredkin readsMarvin Minsky for the Celebration ofJohn McCarthy's Accomplishments on March 25, 2012, atStanford University,YouTube Video

References

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