Marvin Minsky
Marvin Minsky · Technology & Engineering
Co-founder of artificial intelligence; Turing Award laureate.
1927, New York City, United States — 2016, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
United States
Marvin Minsky is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Co-founder of artificial intelligence; Turing Award laureate.
Minsky, from a Jewish family in New York, trained as a mathematician at Harvard and Princeton and in 1959 co-founded the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory with John McCarthy, making him one of the founding fathers of the field. He built early learning machines and, in books such as 'The Society of Mind', argued that intelligence emerges from many simple interacting agents. He received the Turing Award in 1969, computing's highest honor.
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Co-founder of artificial intelligence; Turing Award laureate.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science
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