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Marvin Minsky
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Minsky was a founder of artificial intelligence—a participant in the 1956 Dartmouth workshop that named the field, co-founder of the MIT AI Lab, and author of "The Society of Mind." His work, including the critique "Perceptrons," shaped the field's first decades. He died in 2016.
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Previously
1958-2016Professor and professor emeritus, 
MIT
MIT
Harvard University
Princeton UniversityLifespan1927–2016
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