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Marvin Minsky, Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88


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Marvin Minsky, M.I.T., 1968

Marvin Minsky in a lab at M.I.T. in 1968.

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Marvin Minsky, who combined a scientist's thirst for knowledge with a philosopher's quest for truth as a pioneering explorer of artificial intelligence, work that helped inspire the creation of the personal computer and the Internet, died on Sunday night in Boston. He was 88.

From The New York Times
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