Oliver Selfridge
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Oliver Gordon Selfridge was a British-American mathematician and computer scientist who pioneered the early foundations of modern artificial intelligence. He is mostly known for his 1959 paper, Pandem
Selfridge in 2008
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
Oliver Selfridge
…mathematics in 1945. He then became a graduate student of Norbert Wiener at MIT, but did not write up his doctoral research and never earned a Ph.D. Marvin Minsky considered Selfridge to be one of his mentors, and Selfridge was one of the 11 attendees, with Minsky, of the Dartmouth workshop that is considered the…
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.