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Marvin Minsky

1927 - 2016

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Marvin Lee Minsky (August 9, 1927 – January 24, 2016) was an American cognitive and computer scientist concerned largely with research in artificial intelligence (AI). He co-founded the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory and wrote extensively about AI and philosophy. Minsky received many accolades and honors, including the 1969 Turing Award. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marvin Minsky is the 17th most popular computer scientist (down from 14th in 2019), the 1,353rd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,250th in 2019) and the 9th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Marvin Minsky ranks 17 out of 245. Before him are Edsger W. Dijkstra, Geoffrey Hinton, Niklaus Wirth, Lotfi A. Zadeh, Linus Torvalds, and Ray Kurzweil. After him are John Cocke, Don Norman, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, John Backus, Ken Thompson, and Alan Kay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Marvin Minsky ranks 59. Before him are Romano Mussolini, Stan Getz, Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad, John Vane, Daniel Keyes, and Hans-Dietrich Genscher. After him are Eduardo Martínez Somalo, Carlo Maria Martini, Pat Carroll, Leszek Kołakowski, Harry Markowitz, and George C. Scott. Among people deceased in 2016, Marvin Minsky ranks 63. Before him are George Gaynes, Ahmed Zewail, Robert Vaughn, Ray Tomlinson, Michèle Morgan, and Hans-Dietrich Genscher. After him are Sonia Rykiel, René Angélil, Jacques Rivette, Ettore Scola, Věra Čáslavská, and George Martin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Marvin Minsky ranks 1,353 out of 20,380. Before him are Cormac McCarthy (1933), Jack Kirby (1917), Carl Weathers (1948), Ambrose Bierce (1842), James Cagney (1899), and Dizzy Gillespie (1917). After him are Harry Dean Stanton (1926), Eric Peterson (1964), Kendrick Lamar (1987), Raymond Carver (1938), Jane Wyman (1917), and Martin Chalfie (1947).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Marvin Minsky ranks 9. Before him are John McCarthy (1927), Barbara Liskov (1939), Dennis Ritchie (1941), Frances E. Allen (1932), Donald Knuth (1938), and Ray Kurzweil (1948). After him are John Cocke (1925), Don Norman (1935), Andrew S. Tanenbaum (1944), John Backus (1924), Ken Thompson (1943), and Alan Kay (1940).

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