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Marvin Minsky

Author of Society of Mind

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Works by Marvin Minsky

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Society of Mind 1,094 copies, 4 reviews
The Turing Option (Questar Science Fiction) (Author) 431 copies, 7 reviews
The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and… 245 copies, 3 reviews
Perceptrons: An Introduction to Computational Geometry 74 copies
Computation: finite and infinite machines 57 copies
Semantic Information Processing 35 copies
Robotics: The First Authoritative Report from the Ultimate High-Tech… 12 copies, 1 review
The Psychology of Computer Vision (McGraw-Hill Computer Science Series) 3 copies
Artificial intelligence: Progress report. Research at the Laboratory in… 2 copies
Heuristic aspects of the artificial intelligence problem 1 copy
Konštrukcia mysle 1 copy
Artificial Intelligence Memo No.252 1 copy
Why people think computers can't 1 copy

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True Names and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier (Afterword) 372 copies, 3 reviews
No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman (Contributor) 186 copies
The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (Contributor) 155 copies, 1 review
Life in the Universe: Scientific American : A Special Issue (Scientific… (Contributor) 11 copies
Writing as a visual art (Foreword) 5 copies

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Harvard University (BA ∙ Mathematics ∙ 1950)

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professor (Computer Science ∙ Massachusetts Institute of Technology ∙ 1958- )

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