LocationWebcast DescriptionThursday, March 17MIT Media Lab, 75 Amherst Street, Sixth Floor, Cambridge MAProgram starting around 3:30pmHos...
Philosopher and scientist Marvin Minsky was universally regarded as one of the world's leading authorities in the field of AI.
Professor Emeritus
Minsky, Marvin, Mike Travers, Alan Kay, Harold Abelson, Gary Stager, Brian Silverman, Walter Bender, Patrick Henry Winston, and Margaret Minsky. Inventive Minds: Marvin Minsky on Education. Edited by Cynthia Solomon and Xiao Xiao. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2019.
Philosopher and scientist Marvin Minsky was universally regarded as one of the world's leading authorities in the field of AI.
Inventive Minds: Marvin Minsky on Education is a collection of six essays by artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky.
LocationLive Webcast DescriptionA Symphony for Detroit. By Detroit. Leonard Slatkin leads the world premiere of Tod Machover's 'Symphony ...
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LocationDigital Garage, Tokyo DescriptionDay Two: Saturday, January 19, 2013 Join us via webcast and Twitter: #medialab_tokyo Times are ...
Description The Media Laboratory's sponsors-only semi-annual meeting is Tuesday, May 25 to Thursday, May 27. On May 25, we will host a o...
DescriptionThe Media Laboratory's sponsor-only semiannual meeting is scheduled to take place from Tuesday, October 13 to Thursday, Octobe...
Marc Downie, Paul Kaiser, and Shelley Eshkar collaborated on Loops, an exploration of Merce Cunningham's life and work.
Antarctica is a unique and beautiful continent that is key to the global ecosystem and climate. Research based in Antarctica is helping s...
LocationCollege of New Jersey Description
Honoring Marvin Minsky’s Contributions to Imaging ScienceTalks: 3:00-4:30pmOpening remarks: Nicholas NegroponteReception to followWilliam...
LocationHayden Planetarium Space Theater, AMNH, NYC Description
Can design advance science, and can science advance design?
StoryNet is a large database of story-scripts and inference tools that can be used for case-based common-sense reasoning. Since people ar...
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-525 DescriptionReferring expressions with vague and ambiguous modifiers, such as “a quick visit” and “the big ...
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionA system built on a layered reflective cognitive architecture presents many novel and difficult...
Steven Keating inspired millions with his research-driven approach to battling cancer and his advocacy for open patient health data
LifeNet is a first-person model of a single person's knowledge. We are using multiple LifeNets to model multiple people and attempt to pr...
Professor Minsky continues to develop the theory of human thinking and learning called the "Society of Mind," which tries to explain how ...
A thing cannot be in two places at once. It cannot move through a solid object. If it goes from point A to point B, it must move through ...
In order to build machines with common sense we need to find ways to integrate a wide variety of specific ways to represent knowledge, re...
The Open Mind Common Sense project has collected hundreds of thousands of statements of common-sense knowledge from volunteers on the Int...
LifeNet is a probabilistic spatial and temporal model allowing common-sense physical simulation. Mixtures of gaussians are used to map fr...
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Roboverse is a physical artificial intelligence simulation. The environment supports rigid body physical simulation of wheeled and legged...
This project addresses human cognitive models of reflective problem solving in terms of psychology, neuroscience, and artificial intellig...