Alan Turing

Alan Turing

male, deceased (1954) (london)
computer scientist, computer pioneer, turing machine, British computer scientist, British cryptographer at Bletchley Park, scientist…Artificialintelligenceresearcher, artificial intelligence
This short on-line biography of Alan Turing is based on the entry I wrote for the British Dictionary of National Biography in 1995. The eight parts...
Marvin Minsky

Marvin Minsky

male, 82 years old
artificial intelligence, MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty, Turing Award laureate, Artificialintelligenceresearcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology…Cofounder of Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Marvin Minsky is here critical of many current researchers in artificial intelligence researchers who he feels have gotten bogged down in theories...
Andy Clark

Andy Clark

male
university of sussex, Indiana University, robocop, technology, environment, bloomington…Artificialintelligenceresearcher, artificial intelligence
Andy Clark is a Professor of Philosophy and chair in Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Before this he was director...
John McCarthy

John McCarthy

male, 82 years old
Turing Award laureate, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Princeton University, National Medal of Science recipient, mathematical logic, Turing Award…Artificialintelligenceresearcher, artificial intelligence
John McCarthy (born September 4, 1927, in Boston, Massachusetts, sometimes known affectionately as Uncle John McCarthy), is a prominent computer...
Seymour Papert

Seymour Papert

male, 81 years old
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Logo programming language, MIT, computer scientist, Educator, Educationist…artificial intelligence, Artificialintelligenceresearcher
Seymour Papert (born March 1, 1928 Pretoria, South Africa) is an MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and prominent educator. He is one of the...
Rodney Brooks

Rodney Brooks

male, 54 years old
robotics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Roboticist, MIT, Australian, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory…Artificialintelligenceresearcher, artificial intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
Rodney Allen Brooks (b. December 30, 1954 in Adelaide) is Panasonic Professor of Robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is Chief...
Roger Schank

Roger Schank

male
artificial intelligence, Socratic Arts, Artificialintelligenceresearcher, Learning, John Evans Professor, Psychology and Education…Yale Artificial Intelligence Project, Researcher
Dr. Roger C. Schank , FAAAI is one of the world's leading researchers in AI, learning theory, cognitive science, and the building of virtual...
Raymond Kurzweil

Raymond Kurzweil

male, 61 years old
transhumanist, Futurologist, Artificialintelligenceresearcher, technological singularity, artificial intelligence, speech synthesis
Raymond Kurzweil (pronounced:) (born February 12, 1948) is a pioneer in the fields of optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech...
Eliezer Yudkowsky

Eliezer Yudkowsky

male, 30 years old
Autodidact, Friendly AI, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky, Global Catastrophic Risks, Friendly Artificial Intelligence, wiktionary Founder…Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, artificial intelligence, Artificialintelligenceresearcher
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (born in 1979) is an American artificial intelligence researcher concerned with the Singularity, and an advocate of Friendly...
Steve Grand

Steve Grand

male, 51 years old
Roboticist, Artificialintelligenceresearcher, obe, orang-utan, Growing up with Lucy, Creation Life and how to make it…Artificial Life
Steve Grand OBE (b. 12 February 1958) is an English computer scientist. He was the creator and lead programmer of the "Creatures" artificial life...