Marvin Minsky is one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence and had made numerous contributions to the fields of AI, cognitive science, mathematics and robotics. His current work focuses on trying to imbue machines with a capacity for common sense. Minsky is a professor at MIT, where he co-founded the artificial intelligence lab.

Past Events

• The Limits of Understanding

  2010 Festival

  Mathematician Gregory Chaitin, author Rebecca Goldstein, astrophysicist Mario Livio and artificial intelligence expert Marvin Minsky explore Gödel’s discovery and examines the wider implications of his revolutionary finding.

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• Machover and Minsky: Making Music in the Dome

  2010 Festival

  Legendary composer and inventor Tod Machover explores these mysteries with Artificial Intelligence visionary Marvin Minsky.

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• What it Means to be Human

  2008 Festival

  Drawing on a range of disciplines, this provocative program looked at how discoveries in areas like fundamental physics, anthropology, and genomics are influencing our understanding of uniquely human characteristics.v

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