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Marvin Minsky, who combined a scientist's thirst for knowledge with a philosopher's quest for truth as a pioneering explorer of artificial intelligence, work that helped inspire the creation of the personal computer and the Internet, died on Sunday night in Boston. He was 88.
His family said the cause was a cerebral hemorrhage.
Well before the advent of the microprocessor and the supercomputer, Professor Minsky, a revered computer science educator at M.I.T., laid the foundation for the field of artificial intelligence by demonstrating the possibilities of imparting common-sense reasoning to computers.
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Marvin Minsky, Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 27 2016, @12:18AM
Around the time that Society of Mind was published, I was fortunate to be invited to lunch with Marvin, along with a dozen or so MIT grad students, around a long table. It was Chinese take out and as we finished a large bowl of fortune cookies was passed around. Marvin didn't take one.
Someone noticed -- "Marvin, don't you like fortune cookies?" He replied, "The last time I had a fortune cookie, the fortune read, 'This is the second to last fortune cookie you will ever eat.'"
We all sat there stunned. Maybe he'd been saving that line up for years, but I don't think so. He had that kind of quick brilliance that could invent a comeback like that on the spot.
A very special guy, a huge loss for his family, friends, students & co-workers.