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Marvin Lee Minsky, (August 9, 1927 - January 24, 2016 ) was an American mathematician, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence. Along with John McCarthy, he co-founded the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory. In 1951, Minsky built the first randomly wired neural network learning machine, SNARC, and in 1969, along with Seymour Papert authored Perceptrons, which became the foundational work in the analysis of artificial neural networks, also refered as the abandonment of connectionism, a controversy in the history of AI concerning the Perceptron and its main researcher Frank Rosenblatt.

=HAL 9000= Minsky and Jack Good were adviser of the 1968 Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey, concerning Self-replicating machine and HAL 9000, the Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer, and were referred to both in the movie and the book.

=Selected Publications=

1950 ...

 * Marvin Minsky (1954). Neural Nets and the Brain Model Problem. Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University
 * John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, Claude Shannon (1955). A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence.

1960 ...

 * Marvin Minsky (1967). Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines. Prentice-Hall, ISBN:0-13-165563-9
 * Marvin Minsky, Seymour Papert (1969). Perceptrons.

1970 ...

 * Marvin Minsky, Seymour Papert (1972). Perceptrons: An Introduction to Computational Geometry. The MIT Press, 2nd edition with corrections
 * Marvin Minsky (1974). Framework for Representing Knowledge 1974. MIT-AI Laboratory Memo 306

1980 ...

 * Marvin Minsky (1980). K-Lines: A Theory of Memory. Cognitive Science 4, 117-133, pdf
 * Marvin Minsky (1986). The Society of Mind. Simon & Schuster
 * Marvin Minsky (1988). Why People Think Computers Can't. MIT

2000 ...

 * Pamela McCorduck (2004). Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence. A. K. Peters (25th anniversary edition)
 * Marvin Minsky (2006). The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind. Simon & Schuster
 * Corey Ziegler Hunts, Julian Ziegler Hunts, Bill Gosper, Jack Holloway (2010). Minskys & Trinskys. 3rd edition, Minsky files by Bill Gosper
 * Patrick Henry Winston (2016). Marvin L. Minsky (1927-2016). Nature, Vol. 530

=Forum Posts=
 * Marvin Minsky and the look-ahead efficiency in chess by Julien Marcel, CCC, February 06, 2012

=External Links=
 * Marvin Minsky from Wikipedia
 * Marvin Minsky - Wikiquote
 * Marvin Minsky's Home Page
 * Marvin L. Minsky | MIT Media Lab
 * Marvin Minsky essays - OLPC
 * Marvin Minsky | 1995 Computer Pioneer Award from IEEE Computer Society Awards
 * Marvin Minsky, “father of artificial intelligence,” dies at 88 | MIT News, January 25, 2016
 * Marvin Minsky, Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88 by Glenn Rifkin, The New York Times, January 25, 2016
 * AI pioneer Marvin Minsky dies at 88 by Frederic Friedel, ChessBase News, January 27, 2016
 * Ed Fredkin reads Marvin Minsky for the Celebration of John McCarthy's Accomplishments on March 25, 2012, at Stanford University, YouTube Video

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