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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 many advances in artificial intelligence, psychology, physical optics, mathematics, and the theory of computation. He has made major contributions in the domains of computer graphics, knowledge and semantics, machine vision, and machine learning. He has also been involved with technologies for space exploration.Professor Minsky is one of the pioneers of intelligence-based robotics. He designed and built some of the first mechanical hands with tactile sensors, visual scanners,... Read full bio

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Events At Stanford, April 17, 2012
...Annual Distinguished Speaker Lecture: Marvin Minsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in conversation with Ken Taylor, Philosophy Department, "The Challenges of Artificial Intelligence" Biography: "Marvin Minsky has made many contributions to AI,...
Events At Stanford, April 15, 2012
...Annual Distinguished Speaker Lecture: Marvin Minsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in conversation with Ken Taylor, Philosophy Department, "The Challenges of Artificial Intelligence" Biography: "Marvin Minsky has made many contributions to AI,...
Spectator, February 16, 2012
...develop a robot that can walk upstairs. Another creature, designed for hard floors, is foxed by carpets. Even Marvin Minsky, the godfather of AI, admits that no machine has the intelligence of a two-year-old child. And yet ... The most engaging moments...
LewRockwell.com, November 4, 2011
...or almost any book ever written in any language, from the web in five minutes. Do you want Marvin Minsky on finite automata? Papinian and Ulpian on Roman law? Balzac? Raymond Chandler? Tolkien? All are there. The same is true for any music, any painting,...
Men's News Daily, September 19, 2011
...or almost any book ever written in any language, from the web in five minutes. Do you want Marvin Minsky on finite automata? Papinian and Ulpian on Roman law? Balzac? Raymond Chandler? Tolkien? All are there. The same is true for any music, any painting,...
WBAL, September 15, 2011
...or almost any book ever written in any language, from the web in five minutes. Do you want Marvin Minsky on finite automata? Papinian and Ulpian on Roman law? Balzac? Raymond Chandler? Tolkien? All are there. The same is true for any music, any painting,...
Washington Times, February 28, 2012
...about the same time. A conference at Dartmouth College in 1956 was organized by mathematicians John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky. The problem of creating artificial intelligence would be solved within a few years, they believed. It took much longer than...
Technology Review, February 21, 2012
...edu/chosetec/www, where other examples of his recent work are also shown. —Nancy DuVergne Smith It happened again. [Professor] Marvin Minsky guessed my idea before I had half explained it. I was talking with him about what would happen if smart...
Spectator, February 16, 2012
...develop a robot that can walk upstairs. Another creature, designed for hard floors, is foxed by carpets. Even Marvin Minsky, the godfather of AI, admits that no machine has the intelligence of a two-year-old child. And yet ... The most engaging moments...
Christianity Today, January 27, 2012
...A few years ago, Wired Marvin Minsky, artificial intelligence pioneer, said the one thing we can do that other species can't is remember; we have cultures, ways of transmitting information. Cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett said...
Poten & Partners, December 13, 2011
...might have been quickly contained, had telepresence been developed -- as called for by artificial intelligence pioneer Prof. Marvin Minsky of MIT in his comprehensive article "Telepresence: A Manifesto," published in Omni magazine in 1980, and...
Environmental Expert, November 30, 2011
...might have been quickly contained, had telepresence been developed -- as called for by artificial intelligence pioneer Prof. Marvin Minsky of MIT in his comprehensive article 'Telepresence: A Manifesto,' published in Omni magazine in 1980, and...
KPTV.com, November 30, 2011
...might have been quickly contained, had telepresence been developed -- as called for by artificial intelligence pioneer Prof. Marvin Minsky of MIT in his comprehensive article "Telepresence: A Manifesto," published in Omni magazine in 1980, and...