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Marvin Minsky

American mathematician and computer scientist
Also known as: Marvin Lee Minsky
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Michael Aaron Dennis
Independent scholar. Author of A Change of State: The Political Cultures of Technical Practice at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, 1930–1945.
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Marvin Minsky (born August 9, 1927, New York, New York, U.S.—died January 24, 2016, Boston, Massachusetts) was an American mathematician and computer scientist, one of the most famous practitioners of the science of artificial intelligence (AI). Minsky won the 1969 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, for his pioneering work in AI. Following service in the U.S. Navy from 1944 to 1945, Minsky enrolled in 1946 at Harvard University to explore his...

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