- Human information processing, Intellect, Philosophy, Science
An authority on artificial intelligence introduces a theory that explores the workings of the human mind and the mysteries of thought.
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- Author
- Marvin Minsky
- First published
- 1986
- Pages
- 339
- Publisher
- Picador in association with Heinemann, Heinemann, Galápago
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English, French, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781559406826
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A philosopher and scientist, Marvin Minsky is universally regarded as one of the world's leading authorities in the field of artificial intelligence, having made fundamental contributions in the sectors of robotics and computer-aided learning technologies. In recent years he has worked chiefly on imparting to machines the human capacity for common-sense reasoning. His book Society of Mind is considered a basic text for exploring intellectual structure and function, and for understanding the diversity of the mechanisms interacting in intelligence and thought. Minsky received his BA and PhD in mathematics from Harvard and Princeton, respectively. In 1951 he built the SNARC, the first neural ne
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