Marvin Minsky
Born 1927 · Died 2016
From New York City, New York, United States · Nationality: United States · Writes nonfiction
A philosopher and scientist, Marvin Minsky is universally regarded as one of the world's leading authorities in the field of artificial intelligence, having made fundamental contributions in the sectors of robotics and computer-aided learning technologies. In recent years he has worked chiefly on imparting to machines the human capacity for common-sense reasoning. His book Society of Mind is considered a basic text for exploring intellectual structure and function, and for understanding the diversity of the mechanisms interacting in intelligence and thought. Minsky received his BA and PhD in mathematics from Harvard and Princeton, respectively. In 1951 he built the SNARC, the first neural network simulator. His other inventions include mechanical hands and other robotic devices, the confocal scanning microscope, the "Muse" synthesizer for musical variations (with E. Fredkin), and the first LOGO "turtle" (with S. Papert). (source)
Quotes
“Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.”
Scientific American October 1994 “Every smart person wants to be corrected, not admired.”
Part 6 “We’ll show you that you can build a mind from many little parts, each mindless by itself.”
The Society of Mind “What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle.”
The Society of Mind, p. 308 “When no idea seems right, the right one must seem wrong.”
Music, Mind, and Meaning
Quotes from Wikiquote (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Books by Marvin Minsky in order
Books by Marvin Minsky in the order they were published, from Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines (1967) to Inventive Minds (2019).
- 1Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines
Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines1967 - 2Semantic Information Processing
Semantic Information Processing1968 - 3Perceptrons
Perceptrons1969 - 4Artificial IntelligenceArtificial Intelligence1973
- 5Robotics
Robotics1985 - 6The Society of Mind
The Society of Mind1986 - 7Computers & Artificial IntelligenceComputers & Artificial Intelligence2002
- 8The Emotion Machine
The Emotion Machine2006 - 9Inventive Minds
Inventive Minds2019