Artificial Intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky no more
Q. Foundation for the field of artificial intelligence was laid by - Published on 27 Jan 16a. Marvin Minsky
b. Bill Gates
c. Thomas Edison
d. John McCarthy
ANSWER: Marvin Minsky
Well before the advent of the microprocessor and the supercomputer, Mr. Minsky, a revered computer science educator at MIT, laid the foundation for the field of artificial intelligence by demonstrating the possibilities of imparting common-sense reasoning to computers. Beginning in the early 1950s, he worked on computational ideas to characterize human psychological processes and produced theories on how to endow machines with intelligence. Beyond its artificial intelligence charter, however, the lab would have a profound impact on the modern computing industry, helping to impassion a culture of computer and software design. It planted the seed for the idea that digital information should be shared freely, a notion that would shape the open-source software movement, and it was a part of the original ARPAnet, the forerunner to the Internet. In 1951 he built the first randomly wired neural network learning machine, which he called Snarc. And in 1956, while at Harvard, he invented and built the first confocal scanning microscope, an optical instrument with superior resolution and image quality still in wide use in the biological sciences.
