Marvin Minsky The Society of Fellows was a wonderful environment 35151

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To hear more of Marvin Minsky’s stories, go to the playlist: • Marvin Minsky - The amazing videophon... • The scientist, Marvin Minsky (1927-2016) was one of the pioneers of the field of Artificial Intelligence, having founded the MIT AI Lab in 1970. Since the 1950s, his work involved trying to uncover human thinking processes and replicate them in machines. [Listener: Christopher Sykes; date recorded: 2011] • TRANSCRIPT: It was a wonderful environment because it was… well the… the senior… it had about eight senior Fellows, and about 30… 24, I think there were six or eight per year, so… maybe eight, so there were about, somewhere around 30 junior Fellows, and a third of them would change each year because it was a three year Fellowship. But the incredible thing was that it had been set up by President Lowell many years ago, so that they had the key to the University. So one year I had a biology lab, and one year I had a physics lab, and every time I changed my mind about something I could do it, so it was… no… no requirements, no exams, no nothing… no obligations.

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