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  Minsky's Society of Mind
To make his point about brains as machines, Minsky asks us to imagine replacing each cell in a brain with a computer chip designed to perform the same functions and connected to the other chips exactly as the brain cells are connected.
Minsky has spent his life in a demanding field in which a theory of a process is as good as the program that one can write or the robot that one can build to instantiate it.
Minsky’s book is an example of operational thinking at its best and will doubtless serve as a roadmap for much of the work in artificial intelligence and cognitive psychology in years to come.
www.emcp.com /intro_pc/reading12.htm   (1414 words)

  
 Marvin Minsky
Marvin Lee Minsky (born August 9, 1927), sometimes affectionately known as "Old Man Minsky", is an American scientist in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), co-founder of MIT's AI laboratory, and author of several texts on AI and philosophy.
Minsky's patents include the first head-mounted graphical display (1963) as well as the confocal scanning microscope[?] and, jointly with Papert, the first Logo "turtle".
Minsky is an actor in an artificial intelligence koan from the Jargon file:-
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ma/Marvin_Minsky.html   (395 words)

  
 Results from your questions who is Marvin minsky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
marvin minsky is the donner professor of science at the massachusetts institute of technology where he cofounded the artificial intelligence laboratory
marvin minsky is the donner professor of science at the massachusetts institute of technology where he cofounded the artificial intelligence
marvin minsky is the co-founder of the artificial intelligence laboratory at mit and a legend in the ai field
www.orbiscope.net /en/marvin_minsky.html   (450 words)

  
 Marvin Minsky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Marvin Minsky Marvin Lee Minsky (born August 9, 1927), sometimes affectionately known as "Old Man Minsky", is an American scientist in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), co-founder of MIT's AI laboratory, and author of several texts on AI and philosophy.
Minsky's patents include the first head-mounted graphical display (1963) as well as the confocal scanning microscope (a predecessor to today's widely used confocal laser scanning microscope) and, jointly with Seymour Papert, the first Logo "turtle".
Minsky is an actor in an artificial intelligence koan (attributed to his student, Danny Hillis) from the Jargon file:- :In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.
marvin-minsky.iqnaut.net   (713 words)

  
 Marvin Minsky.
It seems to be true that Minsky and Papert, by focusing on the single-layer perceptron alone, did give an unduly negative view of Rosenblatt’s ideas — but if researchers were jailed for giving dismissive accounts of their rivals’ work, there wouldn’t be many on the loose today.
The question we have to ask is why so much notice was apparently taken of Minsky and Papert when a judicious audience would surely have balanced their claims against those of Rosenblatt and his supporters.
I suspect that both Minsky’s optimism and his attack on the perceptron should properly be seen as crystallizing in a particularly articulate and trenchant form views which were actually widespread at the time: Minsky was not so much a lonely but influential voice as the most conspicuous and effective exponent of the emergent consensus.
www.consciousentities.com /minsky.htm   (1088 words)

  
 Marvin Minsky -- "Story/Mind" Consultant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Marvin Minsky is Toshiba Professor at the MIT Media Lab.
In the early 1970s, Minsky and Papert began formulating a theory called The Society of Mind which combined insights from developmental child psychology with their and their students' experiences of attempting to build intelligent machines.
The texts used in the Brain Opera are taken from discussions between Minsky and Machover on music and the mind, recorded at the MIT Media Lab between 1993 and 1996.
imperial.park.org /Events/BrainOpera/people/minsky.html   (352 words)

  
 Amazon.de: The Society of Mind: English Books: Marvin L. Minsky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Minsky, cofounder of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab, is a charter member of the community of AI pioneers committed to understanding the workings of the human mind and mimicking its processes by computer.
But Minsky's difference is his style: he writes aphoristically, with wit and precision, and makes the most of his perception that the mind learns by images, which perform as agents that connect, interact and even "censor" in a staggeringly subtle "society" of microprocedures.
This holistic view of the mind's learning stages is the culmination of Minsky's study, and its insights into the developing world of computers-as-machines are matched by paradoxically intuitive glimpses of the growth of a sense of "self" through introspection, short- and long-term memory, mind-frames utilizing pictures and language.
www.amazon.de /Society-Mind-Marvin-L-Minsky/dp/0671657135   (1090 words)

  
 Big Thinkers - Marvin Minsky
Marvin Minsky has made many contributions to AI, cognitive psychology, mathematics, computational linguistics, robotics, and optics.
Marvin Minsky is Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Professor Minsky was also one of the pioneers of intelligence-based mechanical robotics and telepresence.
www.kurzweilai.net /bios/bio0023.html   (762 words)

  
 Scientist on the Set: An Interview with Marvin Minsky, Section 01
Marvin Minsky: Well, we were trying to make intelligent machines.
Minsky: If it was an aspect of the problem that you overlooked in a simulation, then you would have overlooked it in a physical robot too.
Minsky: There are three basic approaches to AI: Case-based, rule-based, and connectionist reasoning.
mitpress.mit.edu /e-books/Hal/chap2/two1.html   (925 words)

  
 Mind as Society: Jeffrey Mishlove interviews Marvin Minsky
We're privileged today to be with Dr. Marvin Minsky, one of the founders of the research discipline of artificial intelligence.
Minsky is the author of numerous scientific papers and several books, including Society of Mind.
MINSKY: Oh well, I'm very elated by what's happened in that forty years, because I started thinking about these things in college in the late 1940s, and like other fields, every year something wonderful has happened.
www.williamjames.com /transcripts/minsky.htm   (4103 words)

  
 Untitled Document
In the early 1970's, Minsky and Seymour Papert began formulating a theory called the Society of Mind, which combined insights from developmental child psychology and experience with research on Artificial Intelligence.
In the Society of Mind, Marvin Minsky advocates that the human mind is composed of a number of various networked agencies (or societies).
Marvin Minsky was the 1969 ACM A.M. Turing Award winner.
www.iit.edu /~klinkat/wt_assignment03/MarvinMinsky.html   (784 words)

  
 Foresight Update 7 Page 2
Marvin Minsky may be one of the few human beings alive today who can say, with a straight face, that he's been interested in nanotechnology his whole life and not produce knowing chuckles in his listeners.
Minsky, who is Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is undeniably an elder statesman of American science and technology.
Minsky became interested in the nervous system and in how brain cells are connected to one another.
www.foresight.org /Updates/Update07/Update07.2.html   (3349 words)

  
 EDGE 3rd Culture: CONSCIOUSNESS IS A BIG SUITCASE - A Talk with Marvin Minsky
Marvin believes that it is important that we "understand how our minds are built, and how they support the modes of thought that we like to call emotions.
Marvin Minsky is the leading light of AI-that is, artificial intelligence.
Scientists who, like Minsky, take the strong AI view believe that a computer model of the brain will be able to explain what we know of the brain's cognitive abilities.
www.edge.org /3rd_culture/minsky/index.html   (282 words)

  
 marvin minsky lecture @ the bren school of information and computer sciences
Minsky gave two speeches during his visit to UCI which have been made available as downloadable mp3s you can download and play either on your computer or an mp3 player like Apple's iPod.
Marvin Minsky's research has led to both theoretical and practical advances in artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, neural networks, and the theory of Turing Machines and recursive functions.
Minsky was also one of the pioneers of intelligence-based mechanical robotics and telepresence.
www.ics.uci.edu /community/events/minsky   (323 words)

  
 The Discover Interview: Marvin Minsky | Technology | DISCOVER Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
He may be known around campus as "Old Man Minsky," but the scientist is just as active in AI research today as he was when he helped pioneer the field as a young man in the 1950s.
In 1959 Minsky cofounded the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT, where he designed and built robotic hands that could "feel" and "see" and manipulate objects, a watershed in the field.
It is a blueprint for a thinking machine that Minsky would like to build—an artificial intelligence that can reflect on itself—taking us a step forward into a future that may seem as if out of an Asimov story.
discovermagazine.com /2007/jan/interview-minsky   (1299 words)

  
 Technology Review: Marvin Minsky on Common Sense and Computers That Emote
Marvin Minsky, emeritus professor of media arts and sciences at MIT, was one of the original participants in the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence in 1956.
Technology Review interrupted Minsky on July 11, as he was proofing the galleys for his forthcoming book, The Emotion Machine, which reinterprets the human mind as a "cloud of resources," or mini-machines that turn on and off depending on the situation and give rise to our various emotional and mental states.
It is a shame that Minsky's work turned up so many dead ends, and ironic that one of the primary researchers who have begun to really understand how the brain works is Jeff Hawkins ("On Intelligence"), for whom brain function was a hobby until recently.
www.technologyreview.com /read_article.aspx?id=17164&ch=infotech   (2011 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Society of Mind: Books: Marvin Minsky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Minsky, cofounder of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab, is a charter member of the community of AI pioneers committed to understanding the workings of the human mind and mimicking its processes by computer.
But Minsky's difference is his style: he writes aphoristically, with wit and precision, and makes the most of his perception that the mind learns by images, which perform as agents that connect, interact and even "censor" in a staggeringly subtle "society" of microprocedures.
Minsky's creative terminology for freshly perceived mental processes is a major contribution to the future of mind-science.
www.amazon.com /Society-Mind-Marvin-Minsky/dp/0671657135   (595 words)

  
 Marvin Minsky
Marvin Minsky's homepage provides biographical information and lists his publications, research groups, and awards.
Marvin Minsky, father of artificial intelligence, says that you don't know something until you know it in more than three ways.
Marvin Minsky makes a career of criticizing other people's creative endeavors from her home in San Francisco.
www.wired.com /wired/archive/people/marvin_minsky   (903 words)

  
 Marvin Minsky: in search of the smart machine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
A pioneer in computer research since the mid 1950s, Marvin Minsky is often mentioned in the same breath as Artificial Intelligence.
Let’s hope their lifespan is short.” Asked about spinoffs from AI research on computer interface design, Minsky replies: “AI research, as I see it, is essentially the same as advanced computer science.
Likewise the first networks and timesharing systems.” Minsky points out that a wide variety of vision and pattern recognition systems, expert systems, and optical character recognition systems are currently available.
www.lim.nl /articles/minsky.html   (1217 words)

  
 A conversation with Seymour Papert, Marvin Minsky, and Alan Kay
Marvin Minsky: The worst thing about computers is that the keyboard is not a real keyboard...
Minsky: The idea of general education, I think, is terrible.
Minsky: If you look at my Web page there is an article titled Steps for AI from 1961 that describes what should be done.
www.benslade.com /tech/TalkWithPapertMinskyKay.html   (2266 words)

  
 DBLP: Marvin Minsky
John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Aaron Sloman, Leiguang Gong, Tessa A. Lau, Leora Morgenstern, Erik T. Mueller, Doug Riecken, Moninder Singh, Push Singh: An architecture of diversity for commonsense reasoning.
Marvin Minsky, Otto E. Laske: A Conversation with Marvin Minsky.
Marvin Minsky: Introduction to the COMTEX Microfiche Edition of the Early MIT Artificial Intelligence Memos.
www.informatik.uni-trier.de /~ley/db/indices/a-tree/m/Minsky:Marvin.html   (270 words)

  
 Chevilly1: Marvin Minsky on Common Sense and Computers That Emote   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Marvin Minsky on Common Sense and Computers That Emote As artificial intelligence research celebrates its 50th birthday, the MIT icon asks what makes the minds of three-year-olds tick.
Top computer scientists from around the world are meeting today at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH, to mark the 50th anniversary of "artificial intelligence." Back in 1956, John McCarthy, then a member of Dartmouth's mathematics faculty, invented the term for the field's seminal gathering, the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence.
McCarthy and four other participants in the 1956 project, including MIT's Marvin Minsky, are participating in this week's meeting, which focuses on AI's next 50 years.
serendip.epfl.ch /Chevilly1/2006/07/marvin_minsky_o.html   (244 words)

  
 Marvin Minsky Biography and Summary
Marvin Lee Minsky is an educator and computer scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence.
Minsky co-founded MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 1959 and has been a lifelong proponent of machine intelligence.
Marvin Lee Minsky (born August 9, 1927), sometimes affectionately known as "Old Man Minsky", is an American Cognitive Scientist in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), co-founder of MIT 's AI laboratory, and author of several texts on AI and philo...
www.bookrags.com /Marvin_Minsky   (250 words)

  
 Marvin Minsky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Marvin Minsky: Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences Professor of Computer Science and Engineering American Associtation for Artificial Intelligence
Marvin Minsky, Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, is often identified as one of the founders of the field of artificial intelligence.
A graduate of Harvard and Princeton universities, he has made major contributions to the scientific foundations of AI in the domains of symbolic description, knowledge representation, computational semantics and linguistics, machine perception, symbolic and connectionist learning, mechanical robotics, and industrial automation.
mitpress.mit.edu /e-books/Hal/chap2/author.html   (240 words)

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