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Marvin Minsky is an American cognitive scientist, a pioneer of robotics and neural networks, author, inventor and one of the founders of the artificial intelligence field. He is Toshiba professor of media arts and sciences and professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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O’Regan, G. (2013). Marvin Minsky. In: Giants of Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5340-5_41
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