Died Marvin Minsky, a pioneer of artificial intelligence – El Colombiano

The American scientist Marvin Minsky, a pioneer of artificial intelligence, died on Sunday at age 88 at a hospital in Boston (United States) because of a cerebral hemorrhage, said Tuesday the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he was professor emeritus

.

Minsky was born in New York in 1927, received numerous international awards for his pioneering work and his role as mentor in the field of artificial intelligence, including Turing, the highest honor in computer science in 1969.

“It was the most important expert in the theory of artificial intelligence and his book The Society of Mind (The Society of Mind) is considered a ‘transcendent’ exploration of brain structure and function, “as described by the MIT in his obituary.

The scientist He joined the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1958 and was a founder of the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence a year later.

In the laboratory explored how giving machines of perception and a similar intelligence human, created robotic hands with ability to manipulate objects, developed new programming frameworks and wrote extensively about philosophical issues related to artificial intelligence.

Minsky was convinced that the man held one day machines that compete with their intelligence, although in recent years he warned that “how it takes depends on how many people are working on the right problems” .

In 1985, Minsky became a founding member of the Media Lab at MIT, where he worked as a teacher and mentor until shortly before his death.

The New York mathematician saw the brain as a machine whose operation can be studied and replicated on a computer, something that could help us better understand the human brain and higher mental functions.

Among these questions are those of how giving machines common sense The humans acquire knowledge every day through experience; or how, for example, teach a sophisticated computer to drag an object with a rope pull and not push you need a simple concept of learning for a child of two years.

The scientist published his last book in 2006, titled The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind (The Emotions Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future the Human Mind).

Minsky entered Harvard University after returning from battle with the US Navy in World War II.

After graduating from the prestigious university located like MIT in Cambridge (Massachusetts), he joined Princeton University, where he earned his doctorate in mathematics four years later.

In his first year at Princeton, built his first network of neuronal simulation .

In addition to its recognition in the field of artificial intelligence, Minsky was a talented pianist and published an influential article in 1981 that illuminated connections between music, psychology and mind.