Marvin Minsky, considered a father of the field of artificial intelligence, who sought parallels in the functioning of the human brain and computers, died Sunday in Boston. The MIT emeritus professor ...

Isaac Asimov, a scientist turned hard sci-fi writer, once remarked that the only people he ever felt overshadowed him in intelligence were Carl Sagan and Marvin Minsky. While the former is well known ...

Marvin Minsky is one of the founding fathers of artificial intelligence, and over the past 60 years he has made key contributions in mathematics, robotics, computer graphics, machine perception, and ...

WHEN he was doing something—simulating on paper how a computer might solve one of Euclid’s theorems, say—Marvin Minsky often found himself improvising a nice little tune. He could only do that, though ...

If you have ever marveled about the power of computers to think, learn, and process information, you owe a debt of gratitude to Marvin Minsky. The long-time MIT professor spent his life pioneering ...

Marvin Minsky was a pioneer, someone who was thinking one step ahead of anyone else. He was a founding father when it comes to artificial intelligence and computer science. He was also one of the most ...

On this day in tech history, mathematician and co-founder of the field of artificial intelligence Marvin Minsky was born in New York. A pioneer of robotics and telepresence, Minsky contributed to ...

Machine learning is a subfield of artificial intelligence, which explores how to computationally simulate (or surpass) humanlike intelligence. While some AI techniques (such as expert systems) use ...