| Marvin Minsky  AKA Marvin Lee Minsky
Born: 9-Aug-1927
Birthplace: New York City
Died: 24-Jan-2016
Location of death: Boston, MA
Cause of death: Cerebral Hemorrhage
Gender: Male
Religion: Atheist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Scientist, Author Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Father of Artificial Intelligence Military service: US Navy (1944-45) Marvin Minsky is perhaps the foremost living expert on the theory of artificial intelligence. He designed the first neural network simulator in 1951, and the first confocal scanning microscope in 1956. With John McCarthy and others he founded what became the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 1959. He designed and built early visual scanners, made key contributions to the development of robotics and computer-aided learning technologies, and he has studied cognitive psychology, mathematics, computational linguistics, and optics. He contributed to the development of Logic Oriented Graphic Oriented (LOGO) language, and with Seymour Papert built the first Logo "turtle" device in 1969.
He has proposed a mechanistic theory to explain the workings of the mind, and explain how it might be modeled to create an artificial intelligence. He has described "consciousness" or "self-awareness" as a myth — a convenient but incorrect concept — and said that the key to artificial intelligence will be when computers are designed with common sense. He co-authored the 1992 science fiction novel The Turing Option with Harry Harrison, which envisions the construction of a super-intelligent machine. Father: Henry Minsky (physician)
Mother: Fannie Resier (artist)
Wife: Gloria Anna Rudisch (physician, m. 30-Jul-1952, until his death)
Son: Henry
Daughter: Juliana
Daughter: Margaret
High School: Bronx High School of Science, Bronx, NY (attended)
High School: Phillips Academy Andover (1945)
University: BA Mathematics, Harvard University (1950)
University: PhD Mathematics, Princeton University (1954)
Scholar: Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1957-58)
Teacher: Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1957-58)
Administrator: Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1964-73)
Professor: Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1973-74)
Professor: Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1974-89)
Professor: Media Arts and Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1989-present)
Academy of Achievement Awards Council
Alcor Scientific Board
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Association for Artificial Intelligence President (1981-82)
Argentine National Academy of Science Foreign Member
Committee for Skeptical Inquiry Fellow
CSICOP Fellow
Disney Walt Disney Imagineering (Fellow)
Foresight Nanotech Institute Board of Advisors
Harvard Society of Fellows 1954
International Children's Digital Library Foundation Technology Board
Member of the Board of Information International (1961-84)
IEEE
League for Programming Freedom
LOGO Computer Systems, Inc. Co-Founder (1980)
National Academy of Engineering
National Academy of Sciences
National Dance Institute Board of Advisors
National Space Society Board of Governors
Planetary Society Board of Advisors
The Third Culture
Turing Award 1970
MIT Killian Award 1989
Japan Prize 1990
IJCAI Research Excellence Award 1991
Joseph Priestley Award 1995
Rank Prize 1995
Computer Pioneer Award 1995
Wood Prize 2001 (by the Optical Society of America)
Benjamin Franklin Medal 2001 (by the Franklin Institute)
Jewish Ancestry
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
The Singularity Is Near (26-Aug-2010)
Official Website:
http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/
Author of books:
Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines (1967, textbook)
Semantic Information Processing (1968, edited by Minsky)
Perceptrons: An Introduction to Computational Geometry (1969, non-fiction, with Seymour Papert)
Artificial Intelligence (1972, non-fiction, with Seymour Papert)
The Society of Mind (1986, non-fiction)
The Turing Option (1992, novel, with Harry Harrison)
The Emotion Machine (2006, non-fiction)
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