{"id":21195,"date":"2016-01-25T16:47:32","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T00:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/marvin-minsky-pioneer-in-artificial-intelligence-dies-at-88"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:14:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:14:24","slug":"marvin-minsky-pioneer-in-artificial-intelligence-dies-at-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/marvin-minsky-pioneer-in-artificial-intelligence-dies-at-88","title":{"rendered":"Marvin Minsky, Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/marvin-minsky-pioneer-in-artificial-intelligence-dies-at-88.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sad day for AI &amp; RIP Mr. Minsky \u2014 Early AI Pioneer.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>His family said the cause was a cerebral hemorrhage.<\/p>\n<p>Well before the advent of the microprocessor and the supercomputer, Professor Minsky, a revered computer science educator at M.I.T., laid the foundation for the field of artificial intelligence by demonstrating the possibilities of imparting common-sense reasoning to computers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarvin was one of the very few people in computing whose visions and perspectives liberated the computer from being a glorified adding machine to start to realize its destiny as one of the most powerful amplifiers for human endeavors in history,\u201d said Alan Kay, a computer scientist and a friend and colleague of Professor Minsky\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/26\/business\/marvin-minsky-pioneer-in-artificial-intelligence-dies-at-88.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sad day for AI &amp; RIP Mr. Minsky \u2014 Early AI Pioneer. His family said the cause was a cerebral hemorrhage. Well before the advent of the microprocessor and the supercomputer, Professor Minsky, a revered computer science educator at M.I.T., laid the foundation for the field of artificial intelligence by demonstrating the possibilities of imparting [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21195"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68724,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21195\/revisions\/68724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}