The perceptron invented by Frank Rosenblatt in 1957 and popularized in Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert’s 1969 book Perceptrons: An Introduction to Computational Geometry may no longer be just theory.

Marvin Minsky, who combined a scientist’s thirst for knowledge with a philosopher’s quest for truth as a pioneering explorer of artificial intelligence, work that helped inspire the creation of the ...

Marvin Minsky, one of the early pioneers of neural networks, died on Sunday at the age of 88. The obituary in the Washington Post paints a fantastic picture of his life. Minsky was friends with ...

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 ...

While still a teenager, Marvin Minsky began focusing on what would become his life’s work: unraveling the mystery of intelligence. “Around the end of high school, I had started thinking about thinking ...

MIT Professor Emeritus Marvin Minsky has died at the age of 88. (Credit: Louis Fabian Bachrach via MIT) Marvin Minsky, the computer scientist who helped blaze the trail for virtual smartphone ...