Marvin Minsky

About Marvin Minsky

American scientist Marvin Minsky is best known as one of the founders of the AI laboratory in Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Throughout his career, he contributed immensely to the study of artificial intelligence and went on to publish many books including “The Society of Mind” and “The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of the Human Mind”.

As a computer scientist, he developed many devices including the head-mounted display in 1963. He also invented the SNARC learning machine and the first edition of the Logo "turtle".

Family

His parents were simply called Fannie and Henry. In 1952, he married Gloria Rudisch and together they raised three children.

Education

From Ethical Culture Fieldston School, he enrolled at Bronx High School of Science before attending Harvard University. He did his PhD program at Princeton University.

Awards

Some of his many accolades were the Turing Award, IJCAI Award for Research Excellence and the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award.

Trivia

He served as an advisor on the film titled “2001: A Space Odyssey”.

In 2002, Jeffrey Epstein offered him a $100,000 grant for his research.

Marvin Minsky photo gallery

Title

Three dimensional representation of a 1-euro coin's surface detail: One of the stars embossed on one side of the coin is shown. The 3d profile has been measured with a confocal white light microscope. The lateral range of the measurement is 800 µm by 800 µm (0.8 mm by 0.8 mm), the vertical range is approximately 60 µm (0.06 mm). The colours of the surface show the height according to the scale on the right side of the image. The graphics was created using MATLAB.

Author

• Confocal_measurement_of_1-euro-star_3d.png: Dr. Schorsch
• EUR_1_(2007_issue).png: Ssolbergj
• derivative work: Dr. Schorsch (talk)

Source

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Confocal_measurement_of_1-euro-star_3d_and_euro.png

License

CC BY-SA 3.0

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F.A.Q. about Marvin Minsky

When is his birthday?

Marvin Minsky's birthday is on August 9, 1927.

In how many days is his birthday?

Marvin's birthday is in 199 days

How old was Marvin when he died?

He was 88 years old.

When did he die?

He died in January 24, 2016.

How old would he be today?

Marvin Minsky would be 97 years old if he was alive today.

Where was Marvin from?

He was born in New York City, New York, U.S..