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Marvin Minsky
Marvin Lee Minsky was an American mathematician who conducted research in the 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 laborator…
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science · American cognitive scientist (1927–2016) · mathematician · computer scientist · university teacher · artificial intelligence researcher · naturalist · docent · philosopher · also Marvin Minsky, Marvin Lee Minsky, Marvin L. Minsky, Minsky
Born 9 August 1927 · Died 24 January 2016 · Q204815
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2026· 1 entry
2016· 8 entries
Phys.org: Marvin Minsky, pioneer of artificial intelligence, dies
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Popular Mechanics: Marvin Minsky, the Man Who Built the First Artificial Brain, Dead at 88
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Yahoo: Artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky dead at 88
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PC World: Marvin Minsky, AI pioneer and Turing award winner, dies at 88
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Engadget: Marvin Minsky, A.I. pioneer, dies of brain hemorrhage at 88
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VentureBeat: Artificial intelligence luminary Marvin Minsky has died at 88
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Died 2016-01-24.
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“What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle.”
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2014· 2 entries
Awarded Dan David Prize (2014).
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From the past-present-future trio of Dan David Prizes, Minsky was awarded the "Future"-oriented prize, for "Artificial Intelligence, the Digital Mind"
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2013).
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2011· 1 entry
Minsky was inducted into IEEE Intelligent Systems' AI Hall of Fame for "significant contributions to the field of AI and intelligent systems"
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2006· 3 entries
Awarded Computer History Museum Fellow (2006).
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Minsky published The Emotion Machine, a book that critiques many popular theories of how the human mind works, and suggests alternative theories, often replacing simple ideas with more complex ones
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Was inducted as a Fellow of the Computer History Museum "for co-founding the field of artificial intelligence, creating early neural networks and robots, and developing theories of human and machine cognition
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2002· 2 entries
And another in 2011, after Epstein was a registered sex offender
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Four years before Epstein's first arrest for sex offenses; it was the first from Epstein to MIT
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2001· 2 entries
Awarded R. W. Wood Prize (2001).
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Won Benjamin Franklin Medal (2001).
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1997· 1 entry
“A revisionist history of connectionism.”
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded Computer Pioneer Award (1995).
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1991· 1 entry
Awarded IJCAI Award for Research Excellence (1991).
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1990· 2 entries
Awarded Japan Prize (1990).
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Awarded AAAI Fellow (1990).
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1989· 1 entry
And was inducted into IEEE Intelligent Systems' AI Hall of Fame for contributions to AI and intelligent systems in 2011
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1987· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate presented by Messina College (1987).
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1986· 3 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the Université libre de Bruxelles (1986).
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Awarded honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (1986).
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Published The Society of Mind, a comprehensive book on the theory which—unlike most of his previously published work—was written for the general public
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1981· 1 entry
Career landmark: chairperson (1981–1982).
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1969· 4 entries
Awarded Turing Award (1969).
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“Form and Content in Computer Science”
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The Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 1982, the Japan Prize in 1990, the Benjamin Franklin Medal in 2001, and of the past-present-future trio of Dan David Prizes in 2014, the "Future"-oriented
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The Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 1982, the Japan Prize in 1990, the IJCAI Award for Research Excellence for 1991, and the Benjamin Franklin Medal from the Franklin Institute in 2001
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1962· 1 entry
Worked on small universal Turing machines and published his well-known 7-state, 4-symbol machine
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1958· 1 entry
And spent the rest of his career at that institution
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1954· 1 entry
Studied at Princeton University, Doctor of Philosophy (1951–1954).
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1952· 1 entry
Minsky married pediatrician Gloria Rudisch; together they had three children
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1951· 1 entry
Minsky built the first randomly wired neural network learning machine, SNARC
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1950· 1 entry
Studied at Harvard University, Bachelor of Arts (1946–1950).
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1927· 1 entry
Born 1927-08-09.
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