Marvin Lee Minsky was an American cognitive and computer scientist concerned largely with research of artificial intelligence (AI). He co-founded the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory and wrote several texts concerning AI and philosophy.
Minsky in 2008
General view
The Belgrade Hand
The Minskytron or "Three Position Display" running on the Computer History Museum's PDP-1, 2007
The ACM A. M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science. It is generally recognized as the highest distinction in the field of computer science and is often referred to as the "Nobel Prize of Computing".
Alan Turing, after whom the award is named
Image: Maurice Vincent Wilkes 1980 (3, cropped)
Image: Marvin Minsky at OLP Cc
Image: John Mc Carthy Stanford