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Military Service
MInsky serves for one year in the navy during World War II -
Graduates from Harvard
Minsky graduates from Harvard with a B.A. in Mathematics -
SNARC Neural Network Simulator
After meeting a young physics graduate student at Harvard named Dean Edmonds, Minsky got the idea of building a machine that could learn with wires and valves taking the place of neurons and synapses. With the help of Edmond's engineering prowess, this machine would simulate the process of a rat making its way through a maze and would be the first artificial -
PhD
Minsky recieves his PhD in Mathematics from Princeton; while not explicitly working in the realm of computer science he was greatly interested in the underlying mechanisms of things like cognition which would become cornerstones of AI -
Confocal Microscope
As a junior fellow at Harvard Minsky patents the design for the confocal microscope -
Cofounds Progenitor to MIT AI Lab
One year after joining the MIT faculty in 1958, Minsky along with John McCarthy initiated what would eventually become the fully fledged MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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Steps Towards Artificial Intelligence
In this paper Minsky would survey and outline the direction the then very early field of artificial intelligence should aim to take https://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/steps.html -
SpaceWar and The Circle Algorithim
Minsky's circle algorithm becomes integral for a group of MIT hackers in developing the first video game SpaceWar -
Matter, Mind and Models
Minsky's "Matter Mind and Models" deals with the possibility of self awareness in machines and the limitations of intellectual frameworks surrounding it. -
Perceptrons
Minsky along with Seymour Papert authored "Perceptrons" which dealt with a certain kind of artificial neural network that utilized parallelism in computation. The book attempted to show the limitations of a brain like machine with regards to AI. Research and advances beginning in the 1980's would come to undermine these claims -
AM Turing Award
Minsky wins the AM Turing award, which is often referred to as the "Nobel Prize of Computing" for his contributions and influence in the field of AI. This would help solidify him as a leading voice and figure in computing. -
A Framework For Representing Knowledge
In what would become perhaps Minsky's prominent and influential work, "A Framework For Representing Knowledge" lays out kinds of data structures crucial in the development of artificial intelligence where AI frames work in tandem, an idea Minsky later develops further in "The Society of the Mind" Most AI projects today use some form of these "frameworks" -
Memory Theory
In a paper titled "K Lines: A Theory of Memory" Minsky explores how information is stored, retrieved and used. -
The Society of Mind
Building on work he did in the 70s at MIT's AI lab, Minsky developed a theory of natural intelligence like that found in humans as conceptualized as culmination of vast amounts of simple working parts and mechanisms. -
The Emotion Machine
In what would be his final book published, Minsky outlines a radical idea that things like emotions and intuitions are not merely distinct ways of thinking but categorically different ways of thinking compared to more analytical reasoning
