So grateful you’ve written this, Steven! You’ve always had this knack for capturing the unique culture around Marvin that his students, heirs and co-visionaries have been carrying forward for decades now.

A few tiny tastes:
Gratefully I learned this news yesterday not from a publication, but from my friend David “Gumby…

What an absolutely wonderfully written obituary!

Truly, one genius technology writer of our time, Steven Levy, who in my eyes, is the finest technology writer of our generation in the planet, reflects on the legacy of Marvin Minsky. Just yesterday one of my “friends” in another social network…

About DARPA from another point of view:

“There was a great liberal senator Mike Mansfield and unfortunately he got the idea that the defense department was getting too big and influential, so he got the congress to pass a law that ARPA shouldn’t be allowed to support anything that didn’t have direct military application and…

Marvin Minsky. Un ricordo personale

Il 24 gennaio 2016 si spegneva Marvin Minsky, il padre dell’Intelligenza Artificiale. Nella propria vita professionale ha legato in maniera inscindibile il proprio nome al MIT il “mitico” Massachusets Institute of Technology. La sua vita è stata dedicata a rendere il…

I enjoyed this reverential memorial, but it would be impossible to capture all the contradictory facets of Marvin’s world(s). My impressions are based on taking Society of the Mind 2x in 1991 and 1992, held one night a week in the Bartos auditorium.

My Really, Really Brief Encounter with Marvin Minsky

With Marvin Minsky’s passing, I remember I do have a Marvin Minsky story. It’s a short story, since I don’t recall encountering him in person even though I spent some time in the MIT AI Lab as an undergrad (oddly, some of that time was…