Epstein Secrets

e envision three new creations that are needed to fit together with Marvin's existing books (Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines, Perceptrons, The Society of Mind, and The Emotion Machine), his papers, his website, and those of his lectures and conference talks that are informally available on the web. These

; the confocal scanning microscope; the first digital music synthesizer for musical variations (with E. Fredkin); and the first LOGO "turtle" (with S. Papert). Marvin holds a BA in mathematics from Harvard and a PhD in mathematics from Princeton. A much fuller biography, a bibliography, and list of award

on imparting to machines the human capacity for commonsense reasoning. His conception of human intellectual structure and function is presented in The Society of Mind which is also the title of the course he teaches at MIT. He received his B.A. and Ph.D. in mathematics at Harvard and Princeton. In 1951 he built th

botic devices, the confocal scanning microscope, the "Muse" synthesizer for musical variations (with E. Fredkin), and the first LOGO "turtle" (with S. Papert). A member of the NAS, NAE and Argentine NAS, he has received the ACM Turing Award, the MIT Killian Award, the Japan Prize, the IJCAI Research Excel

on imparting to machines the human capacity for commonsense reasoning. His conception of human intellectual structure and function is presented in The Society of Mind which is also the title of the course he teaches at MIT. He received his B.A. and Ph.D. in mathematics at Harvard and Princeton. In 1951 he built th

botic devices, the confocal scanning microscope, the "Muse" synthesizer for musical variations (with E. Fredkin), and the first LOGO "turtle" (with S. Papert). A member of the NAS, NAE and Argentine NAS, he has received the ACM Turing Award, the MIT Killian Award, the Japan Prize, the MAI Research Excelle