Transcript Marvin Minsky(1927-) - Computer and Information Science

Marvin Minsky(1927-)
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American cognitive
scientist in the field of AI
Toshiba Professor of
Media Arts and Sciences
Professor of Electrical
Engineering and
Computer Science
Co-founder of
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology's AI
Laboratory
Brief Biography
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Born in NYC
Attended The Fieldstone School and the Bronx
High School of Science
Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts
Served in the US Navy from 1944 to 1945
BA in Mathematics from Harvard (1950)
PhD in the same field from Princeton (1954)
In 1959 with John McCarthy founded the MIT
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory
Interesting Fact
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Minsky is listed on Google Directory as one
of the all time top 6 people in the field of
Artificial intelligence
Latest significant works
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The Emotion
Machine(2006)
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The Society of Mind (1985)
INVENTIONS
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1951 Stochastic Neural
Analog Reinforcement
Computer (SNARC):
First Neural Network
Simulator
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1955 Confocal
Scanning Microscope
INVENTIONS
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1967 Serpentine
Hydraulic Robot Arm
(Boston Museum of
Science)
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1970 The "Muse"
Musical Variations
Synthesizer (with E.
Fredkin)
INVENTIONS
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1972 First LOGO
"turtle" device (with S.
Papert)
Honors
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Turing Award, Association for Computing Machinery, 1970
Doubleday Lecturer, Smithsonian Institution, 1978
Messenger Lecturer, Cornell University, 1979
Dr. Honoris Causa, Free University of Brussels, 1986
Dr. Honoris Causa, Pine Manor College, 1987
Killian Award, MIT, 1989
Japan Prize Laureate, 1990
Research Excellence Award, IJCAI 1991
Joseph Priestly Award, 1995
Rank Prize, Royal Society of Medicine, 1995
Computer Pioneer Award, IEEE Computer Society, 1995
R.W. Wood Prize, Optical Society of America, 2001
Benjamin Franklin Medal, Franklin Institute, 2001
In Praise of Reason Award, World Skeptics Congress, 2002
Patrick Henry Winston
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American computer
scientist
Director of the MIT
Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory(1972 to 1997)
Professor of Artificial
Intelligence and Computer
Science at the MIT
Student of Marvin Minsky
Profound works
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Artificial Intelligence
The Psychology of Computer
Vision
LISP (with Berthold K.
P. Horn)
On to C
On to C++
On to Java (with Sundar
Narasimhan)
On to Smalltalk
Courses at MIT
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Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
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The Human Intelligence Enterprise
How to Speak
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Annual course
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Series of tips and
strategies, developed
and honed over
decades, for mastering
the art of speaking
How to Start
Don’t start with a joke.
 Do start with a menu.
 Do provide an empowerment promise.
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Big Four
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Cycling.
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Verbal Punctuation.
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Near Miss.
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Ask Rhetorical Questions.
The Tools
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Time and Place.
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The Board.
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Slides.
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Props.
How to Stop
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Deliver on your promise made at the beginning.
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Tell a joke.
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Call for questions.
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Don’t thank the audience
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End with a salute.
Visual Presentation
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http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/html/icb.topic5870
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