Marvin Minsky
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Marvin Lee Minsky was an American mathematician who conducted research in the cognitive and computer science aspects of artificial intelligence. After three years as a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Soc
Minsky in 2008
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The Belgrade Hand
A useless box based on Minsky's design, at the moment when a device emerges from the box to switch it off.
Claude Shannon
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Claude Elwood Shannon was an American polymath who was a mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist, cryptographer, and inventor known as the "father of information theory", and the man wh
Marvin Minsky
…career at that institution. There, he co-founded MIT's AI laboratory, among other initiatives, and wrote extensively about AI and philosophy. Minsky, Claude Shannon, Nathaniel Rochester, and John McCarthy have been called the "fathers of AI" due to their participation in the Dartmouth workshop. At the time he was…
Shannon c. 1950s
Theseus Maze in MIT Museum
The Minivac 601, a digital computer trainer designed by Shannon
Statue of Claude Shannon at AT&T Shannon Labs