Marvin Minsky

Marvin Minsky
Marvin Minsky
	Minsky in 2008
Born	August 9, 1927; New York City, New York, U.S.
Died	January 24, 2016 (aged 88); Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Education	Harvard University (BA); Princeton University (MA, PhD)
Known for	Artificial intelligence; Confocal microscope; Useless machine; Triadex Muse; Perceptrons; The Society of Mind; The Emotion Machine; Frames;
Spouse	Gloria Rudisch (m. 1952)
Children	3
Awards	Turing Award (1969); Japan Prize (1990); AAAI Fellow (1990); IJCAI Award for Research Excellence (1991); Benjamin Franklin Medal (2001); BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2013);
	Scientific career
Fields	Cognitive science; Computer science; Artificial intelligence; Philosophy of mind;
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis	Theory of Neural-Analog Reinforcement Systems and Its Application to the Brain Model Problem (1954)
Doctoral advisor	Albert W. Tucker
Doctoral students	James Robert Slagle; Manuel Blum; Daniel Bobrow; Ivan Sutherland; Bertram Raphael; William A. Martin; Joel Moses; Warren Teitelman; Adolfo Guzmán Arenas; Patrick Winston; Eugene Charniak; Gerald Jay Sussman; Scott Fahlman; Benjamin Kuipers; Luc Steels; Danny Hillis; K. Eric Drexler; Berthold K.P. Horn; Carl Hewitt;
Website	web.media.mit.edu/~minsky

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

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

^ "Elected AAAI Fellows". www.aaai.org.
^ Marvin Lee Minsky at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
^ Marvin Lee Minsky at the AI Genealogy Project.
^ "Personal page for Marvin Minsky". web.media.mit.edu. Retrieved June 23, 2016.
^ Minsky, Marvin (1961). "Steps toward Artificial Intelligence" (PDF). Proceedings of the IRE. 49: 8–30. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.79.7413. doi:10.1109/JRPROC.1961.287775. S2CID 14250548.
^ Minsky, Marvin (1988). "Memoir on inventing the confocal scanning microscope". Scanning. 10 (4): 128–138. doi:10.1002/sca.4950100403.
^ Pesta, A (March 12, 2014). "Looking for Something Useful to Do With Your Time? Don't Try This". WSJ. Retrieved March 24, 2014.
^ Hillis, Danny; McCarthy, John; Mitchell, Tom M.; Mueller, Erik T.; Riecken, Doug; Sloman, Aaron; Winston, Patrick Henry (2007). "In Honor of Marvin Minsky's Contributions on his 80th Birthday". AI Magazine. 28 (4): 109. doi:10.1609/aimag.v28i4.2064.
^ Papert, Seymour; Minsky, Marvin Lee (1988). Perceptrons: an introduction to computational geometry. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-63111-2.
^ Minsky, Marvin Lee (1986). The Society of Mind. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-671-60740-1. The first comprehensive description of the Society of Mind theory of intellectual structure and development. See also The Society of Mind (CD-ROM version), Voyager, 1996.
^ Minsky, Marvin Lee (2007). The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-7664-1.
^ Marvin Minsky at DBLP Bibliography Server
^ Marvin Minsky publications indexed by Microsoft Academic
^ "Google Scholar". scholar.google.com.
^ Winston, Patrick Henry (2016). "Marvin L. Minsky (1927–2016)". Nature. 530 (7590): 282. Bibcode:2016Natur.530..282W. doi:10.1038/530282a. PMID 26887486.

[1] "Elected AAAI Fellows". www.aaai.org.

[mathgene-2] Marvin Lee Minsky at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

[aigene-3] Marvin Lee Minsky at the AI Genealogy Project.

[4] "Personal page for Marvin Minsky". web.media.mit.edu. Retrieved June 23, 2016.

[steps-5] Minsky, Marvin (1961). "Steps toward Artificial Intelligence" (PDF). Proceedings of the IRE. 49: 8–30. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.79.7413. doi:10.1109/JRPROC.1961.287775. S2CID 14250548.

[confocal-6] Minsky, Marvin (1988). "Memoir on inventing the confocal scanning microscope". Scanning. 10 (4): 128–138. doi:10.1002/sca.4950100403.

[Pesta-7] Pesta, A (March 12, 2014). "Looking for Something Useful to Do With Your Time? Don't Try This". WSJ. Retrieved March 24, 2014.

[8] Hillis, Danny; McCarthy, John; Mitchell, Tom M.; Mueller, Erik T.; Riecken, Doug; Sloman, Aaron; Winston, Patrick Henry (2007). "In Honor of Marvin Minsky's Contributions on his 80th Birthday". AI Magazine. 28 (4): 109. doi:10.1609/aimag.v28i4.2064.

[perceptrons-9] Papert, Seymour; Minsky, Marvin Lee (1988). Perceptrons: an introduction to computational geometry. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-63111-2.

[socmind-10] Minsky, Marvin Lee (1986). The Society of Mind. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-671-60740-1. The first comprehensive description of the Society of Mind theory of intellectual structure and development. See also The Society of Mind (CD-ROM version), Voyager, 1996.

[emotion-11] Minsky, Marvin Lee (2007). The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-7664-1.

[dblp-12] Marvin Minsky at DBLP Bibliography Server

[microsoft-13] Marvin Minsky publications indexed by Microsoft Academic

[14] "Google Scholar". scholar.google.com.

[natureobit-15] Winston, Patrick Henry (2016). "Marvin L. Minsky (1927–2016)". Nature. 530 (7590): 282. Bibcode:2016Natur.530..282W. doi:10.1038/530282a. PMID 26887486.

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Marvin Minsky
Minsky in 2008
Born	(1927-08-09)August 9, 1927 New York City, New York, U.S.
Died	January 24, 2016(2016-01-24) (aged 88) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Education	Harvard University (BA) Princeton University (MA, PhD)
Known for	Artificial intelligence^[5] Confocal microscope^[6] Useless machine^[7] Triadex Muse^[8] Perceptrons^[9] The Society of Mind^[10] The Emotion Machine^[11] Frames
Spouse	Gloria Rudisch (m. 1952)
Children	3
Awards	Turing Award (1969) Japan Prize (1990) AAAI Fellow (1990)^[1] IJCAI Award for Research Excellence (1991) Benjamin Franklin Medal (2001) BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2013)
Scientific career
Fields	Cognitive science Computer science Artificial intelligence Philosophy of mind
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis	Theory of Neural-Analog Reinforcement Systems and Its Application to the Brain Model Problem (1954)
Doctoral advisor	Albert W. Tucker^[2]^[3]
Doctoral students	James Robert Slagle Manuel Blum Daniel Bobrow Ivan Sutherland Bertram Raphael William A. Martin Joel Moses Warren Teitelman Adolfo Guzmán Arenas Patrick Winston Eugene Charniak Gerald Jay Sussman Scott Fahlman Benjamin Kuipers Luc Steels Danny Hillis K. Eric Drexler Berthold K.P. Horn Carl Hewitt^[4]

Website	web.media.mit.edu/~minsky