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Marvin Minsky
KindPerson
Born1927
Died2016
StatusDead
Fieldai

Co-founded MIT's AI Lab, wrote The Society of Mind, and built some of the first neural-network hardware.

Co-founded MIT's AI Lab with McCarthy, built the first learning machine (SNARC), and wrote 'The Society of Mind' — the agent-based theory of intelligence.\n\nThe 'Perceptrons' book (with Papert) killed the first neural-net wave; the most consequential AI thinker.