One of the oldest leading figures in artificial intelligence research, considered by some the father of AI. A founder of: MIT AI Lab, MIT Media Lab, open source/content Open Mind Commonsense project. Author: many books, including the influential and accessible 'The Society of Mind'. Inventions: mechanical hands and other robotic devices, confocal scanning microscope, Muse synthesizer for musical variations (with E. Fredkin), first LOGO turtle (with S. Papert). Member: NAS, NAE and Argentine NAS. Awards: ACM Turing Award, MIT Killian Award, the Japan Prize, IJCAI Research Excellence Award, Rank Prize for Optoelectronics.
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- Minsky's Society of Mind If two minds are better than one, then how about two thousand? Positive review with references. [EMC/Paradigm Publishing]
- Marvin Minsky His page. One of the pioneers of artificial intelligence; a significant contributor to cognitive psychology, mathematics, computational linguistics, robotics, optics (microscopy). Published writings and links to research groups. [MIT Media Lab]
- Marvin Minsky Growing biography, with links to many related topics. [Wikipedia]
- Consciousness is a Big Suitcase: A Talk with Marvin Minsky Introduction and sizable interview. [EDGE 3rd Culture]
- Brain Opera interactive, musical journey into your mind, presented simultaneously in physical and cyber space. Artistic experience based on applying Marvin Minsky's 'The Society of Mind'.
- Marvin Lee Minsky: Matter, Mind and Models Page with picture, and link to the document, which attempts to explain why people become confused by questions about the relation between mental and physical events.
- The Discover Interview: Marvin Minsky Legendary pioneer of artificial intelligence ponders brains, bashes neuroscience, suggests plan for superhuman robot servants.