The term “artificial intelligence” dates back to the mid-1950s, when mathematician John McCarthy, widely recognized as the father of AI, used it to describe machines that do things people might call ...

We've lost one of the world's most brilliant scientists. Marvin Minsky, the MIT scientist who helped pioneer the field of artificial intelligence and laid the foundations for the computer and the ...

Marvin Minsky, one of the early pioneers of neural networks, died on Sunday at the age of 88. The obituary in the Washington Post paints a fantastic picture of his life. Minsky was friends with ...