Dr. Martín Abadi
Marvin Minsky MEMBERS
Co-Founder, Massachusetts Institute of Technology\'s AI laboratory
New York, New York, United States
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  • 1993
  • Computer Science and Information Technology (C.S.E)
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  • 1993
  • Computer Science and Information Technology (C.S.E)
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Marvin Lee Minsky (August 9, 1927 – January 24, 2016) was an American cognitive and computer scientist concerned largely with research of artificial intelligence (AI), co-founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory, and author of several texts concerning AI and philosophy.
 
He was on the MIT faculty from 1958 to his death. Minsky's inventions include the first head-mounted graphical display (1963) and the confocal microscope note (1957, a predecessor to today's widely used confocal laser scanning microscope).

Minsky's book Perceptrons (written with Seymour Papert) attacked the work of Frank Rosenblatt, and became the foundational work in the analysis of artificial neural networks.

In the early 1970s, at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, Minsky and Papert started developing what came to be known as the Society of Mind theory.

In November 2006, Minsky published The Emotion Machine.Minsky was an adviser on Stanley Kubrick's movie 2001: A Space Odyssey; one of the movie's characters, Victor Kaminski, was named in Minsky's honor.
 
Minsky won the Turing Award (the greatest distinction in computer science) in 1969, the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 1982, the Japan Prize in 1990, the IJCAI Award for Research Excellence for 1991, and the Benjamin Franklin Medal from the Franklin Institute for 2001.

In 1993, he was elected as member of European Academy of Engineering.

In 2006, he was inducted as a Fellow of the Computer History Museum "for co-founding the field of artificial intelligence, creating early neural networks and robots, and developing theories of human and machine cognition."

In 2011, Minsky was inducted into IEEE Intelligent Systems' AI Hall of Fame for the "significant contributions to the field of AI and intelligent systems".

In 2014, Minsky won the Dan David Prize for "Artificial Intelligence, the Digital Mind". He was also awarded with the 2013 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Information and Communication Technologies category.
 
Minsky was also affiliated with the following organizations: United States National Academy of Engineering, United States National Academy of Sciences, Extropy Institute's Council of Advisors, Alcor Life Extension

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