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Marvin Minsky(1927-)

Marvin Minsky(1927-). American cognitive scientist in the field of AI Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Co-founder of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI Laboratory. Brief Biography. Born in NYC

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Marvin Minsky(1927-)

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  1. Marvin Minsky(1927-) • American cognitive scientist in the field of AI • Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences • Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science • Co-founder of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI Laboratory

  2. Brief Biography • Born in NYC • Attended The Fieldstone School and the Bronx High School of Science • Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts • Served in the US Navy from 1944 to 1945 • BA in Mathematics from Harvard (1950) • PhD in the same field from Princeton (1954) • In 1959 with John McCarthy founded the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

  3. Interesting Fact • Minsky is listed on Google Directory as one of the all time top 6 people in the field of Artificial intelligence

  4. Latest significant works • The Emotion Machine(2006) • The Society of Mind (1985)

  5. INVENTIONS • 1951 Stochastic Neural Analog Reinforcement Computer (SNARC): First Neural Network Simulator • 1955 Confocal Scanning Microscope

  6. INVENTIONS • 1967 Serpentine Hydraulic Robot Arm (Boston Museum of Science) • 1970 The "Muse" Musical Variations Synthesizer (with E. Fredkin)

  7. INVENTIONS • 1972 First LOGO "turtle" device (with S. Papert)

  8. Honors • Turing Award, Association for Computing Machinery, 1970Doubleday Lecturer, Smithsonian Institution, 1978Messenger Lecturer, Cornell University, 1979Dr. Honoris Causa, Free University of Brussels, 1986Dr. Honoris Causa, Pine Manor College, 1987Killian Award, MIT, 1989Japan Prize Laureate, 1990Research Excellence Award, IJCAI 1991Joseph Priestly Award, 1995Rank Prize, Royal Society of Medicine, 1995Computer Pioneer Award, IEEE Computer Society, 1995R.W. Wood Prize, Optical Society of America, 2001Benjamin Franklin Medal, Franklin Institute, 2001In Praise of Reason Award, World Skeptics Congress, 2002

  9. Patrick Henry Winston • American computer scientist • Director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory(1972 to 1997) • Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science at the MIT • Student of Marvin Minsky

  10. Profound works • Artificial Intelligence • The Psychology of Computer Vision • LISP (with Berthold K. P. Horn) • On to C • On to C++ • On to Java (with Sundar Narasimhan) • On to Smalltalk

  11. Courses at MIT • Introduction to Artificial Intelligence • The Human Intelligence Enterprise

  12. How to Speak • Annual course • Series of tips and strategies, developed and honed over decades, for mastering the art of speaking

  13. How to Start • Don’t start with a joke. • Do start with a menu. • Do provide an empowerment promise.

  14. Big Four • Cycling. • Verbal Punctuation. • Near Miss. • Ask Rhetorical Questions.

  15. The Tools • Time and Place. • The Board. • Slides. • Props.

  16. How to Stop • Deliver on your promise made at the beginning. • Tell a joke. • Call for questions. • Don’t thank the audience • End with a salute.

  17. Visual Presentation • http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/html/icb.topic58703/winston1.html

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