마빈 민스키

소개

마빈 리 민스키(Marvin Lee Minsky, 1927년 8월 9일 ~ 2016년 1월 24일)는 인공지능(AI) 분야를 개척한 미국의 컴퓨터과학자이자 인지과학자이다. MIT의 인공지능 연구소의 공동 설립자이며, AI와 관련된 책들을 저술했다.

Marvin Minsky was an American mathematician who did research in cognitive and computer science aspects of artificial intelligence (AI). After three years as a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows, Minsky joined the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1958 and spent the rest of his career at that institution. There, he co-founded MIT's AI laboratory, among other initiatives, and wrote extensively about AI and philosophy. He, computer scientist John McCarthy, and others have been called the "fathers of AI". At the time he was made emeritus, Minsky was the Toshiba Professor of Media Art & Sciences at MIT.