Marvin Lee Minsky (August 9, 1927 – January 24, 2016) was an American cognitive and computer scientist concerned largely with research in artificial intelligence (AI).

Marvin Minsky is Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In 1959 Minsky and McCarthy cofounded the Artificial Intelligence Project (now the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory). It quickly became one of the preeminent research …

He received the B.A. and Ph.D. in mathematics at Harvard and Princeton. In 1951 he built the SNARC, the first neural network simulator.

Feb 14, 2025 · After serving briefly in the U.S. Navy from 1944 to 1945, Minsky enrolled at Harvard University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics in 1950. He then went on to Princeton...

Born in New York, New York in 1929, Dr. Marvin L. Minsky has a 1950 BA in Mathematics from Harvard University and a 1954 Ph.D. in Mathematics from Princeton University.

Jul 26, 2023 · Marvin Minsky attended Harvard, and earned his Ph.D. in math from Princeton University. He joined MIT in 1958 and, in 1959, co-founded the M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Project (later the …

MARVIN MINSKY (1927-2016) was a mathematician and computer scientist; Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and co-founder of MIT's …

Nov 24, 2025 · Marvin Lee Minsky (August 9, 1927 – January 24, 2016) was an American cognitive scientist and computer scientist who was a pioneer of artificial intelligence (AI). He helped establish …

Marvin Minsky is Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, Emeritus, and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Emeritus, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.