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m MIT under doctoral advisers Gerald Jay Sussman, Marvin Minsky and Claude Shannon. Hillis co-founded Thinking M

leaders in science and industry including Brewster Kahle, Guy Steele, Sydney Brenner, David Waltz, Jack Schwartz, and Eric Lander. He even recruited Richard Feynman to spend his summers there. For many years, Thinking Machines Corporation connection machines were the fastest computers in the world. During 1994,

, and as we doit, machines will be more and more like people. It will be a gradual process, and that’s been happening. This is not so different from Marvin Minsky’s Society of Mind theory, which holds that mind is a collection of agents, each one taking care of a particular aspect of intelligence, and communicati

Afterwords, which were very much on their wavelength. I jumped at the opportunity, the main reason being that the keynote speaker was none other than Richard Feynman. I love 12 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016815 to spend time with physicists, the reason being that they think about the universe, 1.e. everything. And no phys

ct with any precision when such a development might occur.” e You're just a Luddite. It’s an odd definition of Luddite that includes Turing, Wiener, Minsky, Musk, and Gates, who rank among the most prominent contributors to technological progress in the 20th and 21st centuries.* Furthermore, the epithet

g organized by Heinz Pagels, the president of the New York Academy of Sciences. I had a seat at the table alongside the leaders of the 1“ generation, Marvin Minsky and John McCarthy, the 2"! generation, Edward Feigenbaum 13 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016816 and Roger Schank, and Joseph Traub, head of the National Superc

Afterwords, which were very much on their wavelength. I jumped at the opportunity, the main reason being that the keynote speaker was none other than Richard Feynman. I love 12 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016232 to spend time with physicists, the reason being that they think about the universe, 1.e. everything. And no phys

ct with any precision when such a development might occur.” e You're just a Luddite. It’s an odd definition of Luddite that includes Turing, Wiener, Minsky, Musk, and Gates, who rank among the most prominent contributors to technological progress in the 20th and 21st centuries.* Furthermore, the epithet

g organized by Heinz Pagels, the president of the New York Academy of Sciences. I had a seat at the table alongside the leaders of the 1“ generation, Marvin Minsky and John McCarthy, the 2"! generation, Edward Feigenbaum 13 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016233 and Roger Schank, and Joseph Traub, head of the National Superc

iPad app, a cross-platform app, or a Web environment. 10 EFTA00698882 Models for The Omnibus Minsky The collective published works by and about Richard Feynman provide a model for us particularly because each work provides a different access point "according to the way a person has already met Feynman". Al

using an exploration of his life with music as a major organizing thread. The two works that we envision are: • Musings: An interactive revision of Minsky's 1981 paper — "Music, Mind, and Meaning" — that sits atop a substantial multimedia database: video clips, audio, texts and pictures of Marvin's mu

Hillis thesis, p. 19 190 He drove: Po Bronson, “The Long Now: Time Traveling with Danny Hillis”, Wired (May, 1998) 191 Feynman: W. Daniel Hillis, “Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine” Physics Today February 1989, p. 78 192 “At times”: Michael J. Black “Book Reviews: The Connection Machine”, Al Magazine

ons of a human mind,” Hillis wrote at the start of his PhD thesis a few years later. “A thinking machine.”188 What Hillis and others like his mentor Marvin Minsky, realized was that the human brain works differently than machine logic. Life, after all, is not a series of linear math problems. (Much as we might

hine and founded what may have been the first Al company—Thinking Machines Corporation—to produce and market it. This was despite a lunch he had with Richard Feynman, at which the celebrated physicist remarked, “That is positively the dopiest idea I ever heard.” Maybe “despite” is the wrong word, since Feynman had

the 1955 proposal thought to be the first printed usage of the phrase “artificial intelligence,” computer scientist John McCarthy and his colleagues Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, and Claude Shannon conjectured that “every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so preci

hine and founded what may have been the first Al company—Thinking Machines Corporation—to produce and market it. This was despite a lunch he had with Richard Feynman, at which the celebrated physicist remarked, “That is positively the dopiest idea I ever heard.” Maybe “despite” is the wrong word, since Feynman had

the 1955 proposal thought to be the first printed usage of the phrase “artificial intelligence,” computer scientist John McCarthy and his colleagues Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, and Claude Shannon conjectured that “every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so preci