A Conversation with Marvin Minsky

From Artificial Neural Networks to Emotion Machines with Marvin Minsky

In 2007, one among the founders and internationally most recognized leading pioneers of the field of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, professor emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Marvin Minsky celebrates his 80 anniversary. Exploiting thnis opportunity, the article overviews his contribution to the above mentioned fields (and might be also to some others), and sket...

Marvin Minsky - the father of AI

In Honor of Marvin Minsky's Contributions on his 80th Birthday

ficial intelligence and professor at MIT, celebrated his 80th birthday on August 9, 2007. This article seizes an opportune time to honor Marvin and his contributions and influence in artificial intelligence, science, and beyond. The article provides readers with some personal insights of Minsky from Danny Hillis, John McCarthy, Tom Mitchell, Erik Mueller, Doug Riecken, Aaron Sloman, and Patrick...

Learning and Using Plans For Narrative Understanding

Rada Mihalcea will cover the technical section and both Marvin Minsky and Patrick Winston will supervise the contextual area.

Modeling the Minsky triad: a framework to perform reflexive M&S studies

In this paper, we propose a general framework to evaluate models of systems that are ill defined, incompletely known, and furthermore, which cannot be experimented in real conditions, such as the economical systems at the country scale, epidemics (for obvious ethical reasons) or any natural disasters, for instance where human lives are the main issue. Our framework relies on the generic Marvin ...