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Marvin Minsky

American cognitive scientist (1927–2016)

Marvin Lee Minsky (August 9, 1927 – January 24, 2016) was an American cognitive and computer scientist concerned largely with research in artificial intelligence (AI). He co-founded the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory and wrote extensively about AI and philosophy.[12][13][14][15]

Minsky received many accolades and honors, including the 1969 Turing Award.

Early life and education

Marvin Lee Minsky was born in New York City, to Henry, an eye surgeon, and Fannie (Reiser), a Zionist activist.[15][16][17] His family was Jewish. He attended the Ethical Culture Fieldston School and the Bronx High School of Science. He later attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. He then served in the US Navy from 1944 to 1945. He received a B.A. in mathematics from Harvard University in 1950 and a Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1954. His doctoral dissertation was titled "Theory of neural-analog reinforcement s

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The life of Marvin Minsky in milestones

Minsky graduated in Mathematics from Harvard University in 1950. Nicolas Rashevsky's book, 'Mathematical Biophysics', awoke in him his interest in creating “thinking machines”. In his PhD thesis, which followed his postgraduate studies at Princeton University, he analyzed how neural networks capable of learning could be built. He developed his theories when computers were huge machines to which access was very restricted and which performed very few tasks.

In 1959, already regarded as the father of artificial intelligence, Marvin Minsky joined the MIT and together with his colleague McCarthy founded the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. The term 'Artificial Intelligence' was first mentioned formally at Dartmouth College in 1956. John McCarthy, Allen Newell and Herbert Simon accompanied Minsky. The optimism that prevailed in those years around this new science was almost Utopian. Even so, the great problem that Minsky identified was the lack of “common sense” in computers. According to him, we are not aware of how wonderful our abilit

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Brief Academic Biography of Marvin Minsky

Marvin Minsky is Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research has led to both theoretical and practical advances in artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, neural networks, and the theory of Turing Machines and recursive functions. (In 1961 he solved Emil Post's problem of "Tag", and showed that any computer can be simulated by a machine with only two registers and two simple instructions.) He has made other contributions in the domains of graphics, symbolic mathematical computation, knowledge representation, commonsensical semantics, machine perception, and both symbolic and connectionist learning. He has also been involved with advanced technologies for exploring space.

Professor Minsky was a pioneer of robotics and telepresence. He designed and built some of the first visual scanners, mechanical hands with tactile sensors, one of the f

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