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19591950s
Marvin Minsky
Cognitive scientist who co-founded the MIT AI Lab and developed the 'Society of Mind' theory.
Organizations
MITHarvard University
Major Achievements
- •Co-founded the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory with John McCarthy in 1959.
- •Built the SNARC (1951), the first randomly wired neural network learning machine (using vacuum tubes).
- •Co-authored 'Perceptrons' (1969) with Seymour Papert, critiquing early neural networks.
- •Developed the 'frames' theory of knowledge representation.
Key Papers
- Steps Toward Artificial Intelligence
Marvin Minsky · Proceedings of the IRE · 1961
- Perceptrons: An Introduction to Computational Geometry
Marvin Minsky, Seymour A. Papert · MIT Press · 1969
- A Framework for Representing Knowledge
Marvin Minsky · MIT AI Laboratory Memo 306 · 1974
Videos
1. Introduction to 'The Society of Mind'
MIT OpenCourseWare
3. Cognitive Architectures
MIT OpenCourseWare