Marvin Minsky is Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research has led to many advances in artificial intelligence, psychology, physical optics, mathematics, and the theory of computation. He has made major contributions in the domains of computer graphics, knowledge and semantics, machine vision, and machine learning. He has also been involved with technologies for space exploration. Professor Minsky is one of the pioneers of intelligence-based robotics. He designed and built some of the first mechanical hands with tactile sensors, visual scanners, and their software and interfaces. In 1951 he built the first neural-network learning machine. With John McCarthy he founded the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 1959. He has written seminal papers in the fields of artificial intelligence, perception, and language. His book The Society of Mind contains hundreds of ideas about the mind, many of which he has further developed in this book.
Douglas Hofstadter author of Gödel, Escher, Bach and Metamagical
Themas A stunning collage of staccato images, filled to the brim
with witty insights and telling aphorisms.
San Jose Mercury News SCATTERED WITH GEMS....Liable to be
influential far beyond the narrow researches of artificial
intelligence.
The New York Times Book Review INGENIOUS...STIMULATING...crisp,
packed with quips, aphorisms and homely illustrations. A pleasure
to read...It will make you think. And that's what brains are
for.
Gene Roddenberry creator of Star Trek A REMARKABLE BOOK....I am
grateful that Marvin Minsky was my tour guide on this journey in
the realms of my own consciousness.
Issac Asimov Information Week 270 brilliantly original essays
on...how the mind works.
Martin Gardner The Boston Sunday Globe SPARKLING WITH JOKES and apt
quotations...and rich insights.
Michael Crichton author to The Andromeda Strain PROVOCATIVE,
DELIGHTFUL, CHALLENGING, a rich, funny and altogether fascinating
book.
Douglas Hofstadter author of Goedel, Escher, Bach and
Metamagical Themas A stunning collage of staccato images,
filled to the brim with witty insights and telling aphorisms.
San Jose Mercury News SCATTERED WITH GEMS....Liable to be
influential far beyond the narrow researches of artificial
intelligence.
The New York Times Book Review
INGENIOUS...STIMULATING...crisp, packed with quips, aphorisms and
homely illustrations. A pleasure to read...It will make you think.
And that's what brains are for.
Gene Roddenberry creator of Star Trek A REMARKABLE BOOK....I
am grateful that Marvin Minsky was my tour guide on this journey in
the realms of my own consciousness.
Issac Asimov Information Week 270 brilliantly original
essays on...how the mind works.
Martin Gardner The Boston Sunday Globe SPARKLING WITH JOKES
and apt quotations...and rich insights.
Michael Crichton author to The Andromeda Strain PROVOCATIVE,
DELIGHTFUL, CHALLENGING, a rich, funny and altogether fascinating
book.
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