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2 unusual facts about Marvin Minsky


Frank Rosenblatt

The initial excitement became somewhat reduced, though, when in 1969 Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert published the book Perceptrons with mathematical proofs that elucidated some of the characteristics of the three-layer feed-forward perceptrons.

Kristinn R. Thórisson

Other proponents of this approach are researchers such as Marvin Minsky, Aaron Sloman and Michael A. Arbib.


Don Ritter

His professors at MIT and Harvard included artist Otto Piene, computer scientist Marvin Minsky, designer Muriel Cooper, composer Tod Machover, and film theorist Vlada Petric.

Steve Mann

Sensory Singularity, together with Marvin Minsky and Ray Kurzweil, Mann proposed the theory of the "Sensularity" Sensory Singularity.

Tetrahedron

Stanley Kubrick originally intended the monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey to be a tetrahedron, according to Marvin Minsky, a cognitive scientist and expert on artificial intelligence who advised Kubrick on the Hal 9000 computer and other aspects of the movie.

W. Daniel Hillis

In 1985, continuing this research, Hillis received a PhD in EECS from MIT under doctoral advisers Gerald Jay Sussman, Marvin Minsky and Claude Shannon.


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