@drfeifei: “RIP, Marvin Minsky, one of the founders of AI. His gen. created the AI dream for us; it’s our job to carry it thru.”
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. read more