Marvin Minsky - Biography and Bibliography
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-Continuing Education |
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Computer Science History of Science and Technology Information Systems Information Technology Psychology Sociology and Anthropology Technology and Society |
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Marvin Minsky |
| Description: | Website has a biography and bibliography with links to html version of many of Minsky's publications. "Marvin Minsky has made many contributions to AI, cognitive psychology, mathematics, computational linguistics, robotics, and optics. In recent years he has worked chiefly on imparting to machines the human capacity for commonsense reasoning. His conception of human intellectual structure and function is presented in The Society of Mind (CDROM, book) which is also the title of the course he teaches at MIT. He received the BA and PhD in mathematics at Harvard and Princeton. In 1951 he built the SNARC, the first neural network simulator. His other inventions include mechanical hands and other robotic devices,the confocal scanning microscope, the "Muse" synthesizer for musical variations (with E. Fredkin), and the first LOGO "turtle" (with S. Papert). A member of the NAS, NAE and Argentine NAS, he has received the ACM Turing Award, the MIT Killian Award, the Japan Prize, the IJCAI Research Excellence Award, the Rank Prize and the Robert Wood Prize for Optoelectronics, and the Benjamin Franklin Medal." |
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| Keywords: | artificial intelligence Marvin Minsky |
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Publications, mp3 files and links. |
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| Publication Date: | May 2008 |
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WWW |
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Free |
| Download URL: | http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/ |
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