{"id":88,"date":"2016-01-26T17:15:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T01:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/?p=88"},"modified":"2016-01-26T17:15:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T01:15:58","slug":"marvin-minsky-pioneer-in-artificial-intelligence-dies-at-88-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/26\/marvin-minsky-pioneer-in-artificial-intelligence-dies-at-88-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvin Minsky, Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88 &#8211; The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"278\" data-total-count=\"610\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/26\/business\/marvin-minsky-pioneer-in-artificial-intelligence-dies-at-88.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/abloglikethis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/26minsky-obit-web-blog427.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"278\" data-total-count=\"610\">Well before the advent of the microprocessor and the supercomputer, Professor Minsky, a revered computer science educator at M.I.T., laid the foundation for the field of artificial intelligence by demonstrating the possibilities of imparting common-sense reasoning to computers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"339\" data-total-count=\"949\">\u201cMarvin was one of the very few people in computing whose visions and perspectives liberated the computer from being a glorified adding machine to start to realize its destiny as one of the most powerful amplifiers for human endeavors in history,\u201d said Alan Kay, a computer scientist and a friend and colleague of Professor Minsky\u2019s.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/26\/business\/marvin-minsky-pioneer-in-artificial-intelligence-dies-at-88.html\">Marvin Minsky, Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88 &#8211; The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well before the advent of the microprocessor and the supercomputer, Professor Minsky, a revered computer science educator at M.I.T., laid the foundation for the field of artificial intelligence by demonstrating the possibilities of imparting common-sense reasoning to computers. \u201cMarvin was one of the very few people in computing whose visions and perspectives liberated the computer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}