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Marvin Minsky

Marvin Minsky

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
31
Citations
30310
World Ranking
9622
National Ranking
2732

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
  • 2001 - Benjamin Franklin Medal, Franklin Institute
  • 1991 - IJCAI Award for Research Excellence
  • 1990 - Japan Prize for the establishment of an academic field named Artificial Intelligence and the proposal of fundamental theories in that field.
  • 1990 - Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
  • 1973 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1969 - A. M. Turing Award For his central role in creating, shaping, promoting, and advancing the field of Artificial Intelligence.

Overview

Marvin Minsky is affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States. They have contributed to the development and shaping of the academic field known as Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Throughout their career, they have received several awards recognizing various achievements in AI and computer science. These include the A. M. Turing Award in 1969, granted for their central role in creating, shaping, promoting, and advancing the field of Artificial Intelligence.

In addition to the Turing Award, Minsky has been honored with the Japan Prize in 1990 for establishing the academic field of Artificial Intelligence and proposing fundamental theories within that area. They also received the IJCAI Award for Research Excellence in 1991, the Benjamin Franklin Medal from the Franklin Institute in 2001, and the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in 2013.

Minsky became a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1973 and was named a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) in 1990.

Best Publications

  • A framework for representing knowledge

    Marvin Minsky

  • A framework for representing knowledge

    M. Minsky

  • Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines

    Marvin L. Minsky

  • A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, August 31, 1955

    John McCarthy;Marvin L. Minsky;Nathaniel Rochester;Claude E. Shannon

  • Steps toward artificial intelligence

    Marvin Minsky

  • Semantic Information Processing

    Marvin L. Minsky

  • The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind

    Marvin Minsky

  • Music, mind, and meaning

    Marvin Minsky

  • Commonsense-based interfaces

    Marvin Minsky

  • Form and content in computer science

    Marvin Minsky

  • Form and Content in Computer Science (1970 ACM turing lecture)

    Marvin Minsky

  • A conversation with Marvin Minsky about agents

    Marvin Minsky;Doug Riecken

  • Universality of Tag Systems with P = 2

    John Cocke;Marvin Minsky

  • Plain talk about neurodevelopmental epistemology

    Marvin Minsky

  • The St. Thomas common sense symposium: designing architectures for human-level intelligence

    Marvin Minsky;Push Singh;Aaron Sloman

  • Em-one: an architecture for reflective commonsense thinking

    Marvin Minsky;Push Singh

  • Artificial Intelligence Progress Report

    Marvin Minsky;Seymour Papert

  • A LISP Garbage Collector Algorithm Using Serial Secondary Storage

    Marvin Minsky

  • Will robots inherit the earth

    Marvin L. Minsky

  • A Selected Descriptor-Indexed Bibliography to the Literature on Artificial Intelligence

    Marvin Minsky

  • History of artificial intelligence

    P. McCorduck;M. Minsky;O. Selfridge;H. A. Simon

  • Polyscheme: a cognitive architecture for integrating multiple representation and inference schemes

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  • An architecture of diversity for commonsense reasoning

    J. McCarthy;M. Minsky;A. Sloman;L. Gong

  • Why intelligent aliens will be intelligible.

    M. Minsky

  • Some Universal Elements for Finite Automata

    M. L. Minsky;J. Mccarthy;C. Shannon

  • An architecture for combining ways to think

    Push Singh;M. Minsky

  • A conversation with Marvin Minsky

    Marvin Minsky;Otto Laske

  • Proposal to ARPA for Research on Artificial Intelligence at MIT, 1970-1971

    Marvin Minsky;Seymour A. Papert

  • Research in Progress at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

    Berthold K. P. Horn;David Marr;John Hollerbach;Gerald J. Sussman

  • The emotion machine (invited speech): from pain to suffering

    Marvin Minsky

Frequent Co-Authors

John J. McCarthy
John J. McCarthy University of California, Irvine
Aaron Sloman
Aaron Sloman University of Birmingham
Herbert A. Simon
Herbert A. Simon Carnegie Mellon University
Daniel G. Bobrow
Daniel G. Bobrow Palo Alto Research Center
James A. Hendler
James A. Hendler Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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