{"id":21213,"date":"2016-01-26T11:46:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T19:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/in-memory-of-marvin-minsky"},"modified":"2017-04-24T22:47:33","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T05:47:33","slug":"in-memory-of-marvin-minsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/in-memory-of-marvin-minsky","title":{"rendered":"In memory of Marvin Minsky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/images\/Marvin-Minsky.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nice tribute.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<b>Marvin Minsky at One Laptop per Child office, Cambridge Mass. 2008 (credit: Bcjordan\/Wikimedia Commons)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ray Kurzweil, January 25, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I was fourteen I wrote Marvin Minsky a letter asking to meet with him. He invited me to visit him at MIT and he spent hours with me as if he had nothing else to do.<\/p>\n<p>When my daughter Amy was about eleven and we went out for a meal at the Harvest Restaurant in Cambridge with my wife Sonya and his wife Gloria, Amy and Marvin built a large structure on the restaurant table using all of the silverware, experimenting with different ways that the utensils could create stable structures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/marvin-minsky-2?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=d631b2594b-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6de721fb33-d631b2594b-282205513\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice tribute. Marvin Minsky at One Laptop per Child office, Cambridge Mass. 2008 (credit: Bcjordan\/Wikimedia Commons) Ray Kurzweil, January 25, 2016 When I was fourteen I wrote Marvin Minsky a letter asking to meet with him. He invited me to visit him at MIT and he spent hours with me as if he had nothing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,2018],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-ray-kurzweil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21213","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=21213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44326,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21213\/revisions\/44326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}