Marvin Minsky

Marvin Minsky (1927-2016) was an American cognitive scientist and computer scientist. He co-founded the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and made significant contributions to the development of AI, cognitive psychology, and robotics. Minsky's work on neural networks, perception, and machine learning has had a profound impact on the field of AI.

Co-founder of Artificial Intelligence Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, author of several texts on AI and philosophy. Critic of the perceptron.

Marvin Minsky was an American mathematician who did research in cognitive and computer science aspects of artificial intelligence (AI). After three years as a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows, Minsky joined the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1958 and spent the rest of his career at that institution. There, he co-founded MIT's AI laboratory, among other initiatives, and wrote extensively about AI and philosophy. He, computer scientist John McCarthy, and others have been called the "fathers of AI". At the time he was made emeritus, Minsky was the Toshiba Professor of Media Art & Sciences at MIT.

• He, computer scientist John McCarthy, and others have been called the "fathers of AI".
• At the time he was made emeritus, Minsky was the Toshiba Professor of Media Art & Sciences at MIT.
• National Academy of Engineering in 1989, and was inducted into IEEE Intelligent Systems' AI Hall of Fame for contributions to AI and intelligent systems in 2011.