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Also Known As Marvin Lee Minsky
Born August 9, 1927 • New York City • New York
Died January 24, 2016 (aged 88) • Boston • Massachusetts
Awards And Honors Turing Award (1970)
Inventions confocal microscope
Notable Works “Perceptrons: An Introduction to Computational Geometry” • “The Society of Mind”
Subjects Of Study frame • neural network

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