Marvin Minsky

Mathematician; computer scientist; Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT; cofounder, MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; author, The Emotion Machine

MARVIN MINSKY (1927-2016) was a mathematician and computer scientist; Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and co-founder of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He is the author of eight books, including The Society of Mind and The Emotion Machine.