One of the oldest leading figures in artificial intelligence research, considered by some the father of AI. A founder of: MIT AI Lab, MIT Media Lab, open source / content Open Mind Commensense project. Author: many books, including the influential and accessible 'The Society of Mind'. Inventions: mechanical hands and other robotic devices, confocal scanning microscope, Muse synthesizer for musical variations (with E. Fredkin), first LOGO turtle (with S. Papert). Member: NAS, NAE and Argentine NAS. Awards: ACM Turing Award, MIT Killian Award, the Japan Prize, IJCAI Research Excellence Award, Rank Prize for Optoelectronics.
One of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, and cognitive psychology, also work in mathematics, computational linguistics, robotics, optics. MIT. www.ai.mit.edu/people/minsky/minsky.html
Article published in 'Machinery of Consciousness', Proceedings, National Research Council of Canada, 75th Anniversary Symposium on Science in Society, June 1991. On the Mark Hughes website. kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu/~kamikaze/documents/minsky.html
Page with picture, and link to the document, which attempts to explain why people become confused by questions about the relation between mental and physical events. www.medg.lcs.mit.edu/people/doyle/gallery/minsky
If two minds are better than one, then how about two thousand? Positive review with references. On EMC/Paradigm Publishing website. www.emcp.com/intro_pc/reading12.htm
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