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Marvin Minsky

Also Known As Marvin Lee Minsky · Marvin L. Minsky
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Marvin Lee Minsky was an American mathematician who conducted research in the cognitive and computer science aspects of artificial intelligence. He joined the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1958 after three years as a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows, spent the rest of his career at MIT, and co-founded its Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; Minsky, Claude Shannon, Nathaniel Rochester and John McCarthy have been called the fathers of AI for their participation in the 1956 Dartmouth workshop. He received the 1969 ACM Turing Award, the 1990 Japan Prize, the 2001 Benjamin Franklin Medal, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1973 and the National Academy of Engineering in 1989.

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Birth Year
1927 1
Birth Date
1927-08-09 1
Death Year
2016 1
Death Date
2016-01-24 1
Nationality
American 1
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Brewster Kahle, Pioneers

Verified en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster_Kahle: "he studied under Marvin Minsky and W. Daniel Hillis" at MIT.

John McCarthy, Pioneers
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Artificial Intelligence, Fields
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  • introduction, first sentence
    Marvin Lee Minsky (August 9, 1927, January 24, 2016) was an American mathematician who conducted research in the cognitive and computer science aspects of artificial intelligence (AI).
  • Associated With: John McCarthy, MIT AI Lab section
    He and John McCarthy initiated what was, as of 2003, named the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
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Marvin Minsky (Wikidata)
  • Wikidata alias: Marvin Lee Minsky
    Marvin Lee Minsky
  • Wikidata P166: honorary doctorate
    Wikidata P166 (award received): honorary doctorate.
  • Wikidata P166: Dan David Prize
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Dan David Prize.
  • Wikidata P166: R. W. Wood Prize
    Wikidata P166 (award received): R. W. Wood Prize.
  • Wikidata P166: Turing Award
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Turing Award.
  • Wikidata P166: AAAI Fellow
    Wikidata P166 (award received): AAAI Fellow.
  • Wikidata P166: honorary doctor of the Université libre de Bruxelles
    Wikidata P166 (award received): honorary doctor of the Université libre de Bruxelles.
  • Wikidata P166: Computer History Museum Fellow
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Computer History Museum Fellow.
  • Wikidata P166: Computer Pioneer Award
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Computer Pioneer Award.
  • Wikidata P166: honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
    Wikidata P166 (award received): honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
  • Wikidata P166: IJCAI Award for Research Excellence
    Wikidata P166 (award received): IJCAI Award for Research Excellence.
  • Wikidata P166: Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society.
  • Wikidata P166: BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
    Wikidata P166 (award received): BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award.
  • Wikidata P166: Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.
  • Wikidata P166: Benjamin Franklin Medal
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Benjamin Franklin Medal.
  • Wikidata P166: Japan Prize
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Japan Prize.
  • Wikidata alias: Marvin L. Minsky
    Marvin L. Minsky
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